RHEL 7 : nodejs and nodejs-tough-cookie (RHSA-2016:2101)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119383

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for nodejs-tough-cookie and nodejs is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is the company's cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments.

Security Fix(es) :

* A regular expression denial of service flaw was found in Tough-Cookie. An attacker able to make an application using Touch-Cookie to parse a sufficiently large HTTP request Cookie header could cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.
(CVE-2016-1000232)

* It was found that the reason argument in ServerResponse#writeHead() was not properly validated. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to conduct an HTTP response splitting attack via a specially crafted HTTP request. (CVE-2016-5325)

This advisory contains the RPM packages for this release. See the following advisory for the container images fixes for this release :

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016:2100

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2101

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1000232

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-5325

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119383

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2016-2101.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2018

Updated: 2/1/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5325

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-tough-cookie, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1000232, CVE-2016-5325

RHSA: 2016:2101