RHEL 8 : nodejs:10 (RHSA-2019:2925) (0-Length Headers Leak) (Data Dribble) (Empty Frames Flood) (Internal Data Buffering) (Ping Flood) (Reset Flood) (Resource Loop) (Settings Flood)

high Nessus Plugin ID 129480

Synopsis

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

Description

An update for the nodejs:10 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version:
nodejs (10.16.3).

Security Fix(es) :

* HTTP/2: large amount of data requests leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-9511)

* HTTP/2: flood using PING frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9512)

* HTTP/2: flood using PRIORITY frames results in excessive resource consumption (CVE-2019-9513)

* HTTP/2: flood using HEADERS frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9514)

* HTTP/2: flood using SETTINGS frames results in unbounded memory growth (CVE-2019-9515)

* HTTP/2: 0-length headers lead to denial of service (CVE-2019-9516)

* HTTP/2: request for large response leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-9517)

* HTTP/2: flood using empty frames results in excessive resource consumption (CVE-2019-9518)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2925

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-9511

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-9512

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-9513

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-9514

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-9515

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-9516

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-9517

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-9518

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 129480

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2925.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/1/2019

Updated: 12/5/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-9511

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:npm, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-9511, CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9513, CVE-2019-9514, CVE-2019-9515, CVE-2019-9516, CVE-2019-9517, CVE-2019-9518

RHSA: 2019:2925