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openSUSE Security Update : nodejs (openSUSE-2017-284)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97292

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

nodejs was updated to LTS release 4.7.3 to fix the following issues :

 - deps: upgrade embedded openssl sources to 1.0.2k (CVE-2017-3731, CVE-2017-3732, CVE-2016-7055, boo#1022085, boo#1022086, boo#1009528)

Changes in LTS release 4.7.1 :

 - build: shared library support is now working for AIX builds

 - repl: passing options to the repl will no longer overwrite defaults

 - timers: recanceling a cancelled timers will no longer throw

Changes in LTS release 4.7.0 :

 - build: introduce the configure --shared option for embedders

 - debugger: make listen address configurable in debugger server

 - dgram: generalized send queue to handle close, fixing a potential throw when dgram socket is closed in the listening event handler

 - http: introduce the 451 status code 'Unavailable For Legal Reasons'

 - gtest: the test reporter now outputs tap comments as yamlish

 - tls: introduce secureContext for tls.connect (useful for caching client certificates, key, and CA certificates)

 - tls: fix memory leak when writing data to TLSWrap instance during handshake

 - src: node no longer aborts when c-ares initialization fails

Changes in LTS release 4.6.2 :

 - build: it is now possible to build the documentation from the release tarball

 - buffer: Buffer.alloc() will no longer incorrectly return a zero filled buffer when an encoding is passed

 - deps/npm: upgrade npm in LTS to 2.15.11

 - repl: enable tab completion for global properties

 - url: url.format() will now encode all '#' in search

Solution

Update the affected nodejs packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1009528

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1022085

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1022086

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97292

File Name: openSUSE-2017-284.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/21/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:npm, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Patch Publication Date: 2/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-7055, CVE-2017-3731, CVE-2017-3732