SUSE SLES12 Security Update : nodejs4 (SUSE-SU-2016:2470-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 119982
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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update brings the new upstream nodejs LTS version 4.6.0, fixing bugs and security issues :

 - Nodejs embedded openssl version update

 + upgrade to 1.0.2j (CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-2178, CVE-2016-6306, CVE-2016-7052)

 + remove support for dynamic 3rd party engine modules

- http: Properly validate for allowable characters in input user data.
This introduces a new case where throw may occur when configuring HTTP responses, users should already be adopting try/catch here.
 (CVE-2016-5325, bsc#985201)

 - tls: properly validate wildcard certificates (CVE-2016-7099, bsc#1001652)

 - buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new Buffer objects created with Buffer.concat()

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web Scripting 12:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Web-Scripting-12-2016-1439=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1001652

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985201

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2178/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2183/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5325/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6304/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6306/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7052/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7099/

http://www.nessus.org/u?20d40afc

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119982

File Name: suse_SU-2016-2470-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/2/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2183

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Temporal Vector: E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs4, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs4-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs4-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs4-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm4, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2178, CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-5325, CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-6306, CVE-2016-7052, CVE-2016-7099