SUSE SLES15 Security Update : nodejs12 (SUSE-SU-2020:2813-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 143663

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for nodejs12 fixes the following issues :

nodejs12 was updated to 12.18.4 LTS :

- CVE-2020-8201: Fixed an HTTP Request Smuggling due to CR-to-Hyphen conversion (bsc#1176605).

- CVE-2020-8252: Fixed a buffer overflow in realpath (bsc#1176589).

- CVE-2020-15095: Fixed an information leak through log files (bsc#1173937).

Explicitly add -fno-strict-aliasing to CFLAGS to fix compilation on Aarch64 with gcc10 (bsc#1172686)

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web Scripting 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Web-Scripting-15-SP2-2020-2813=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172686

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173937

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176589

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1176605

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-15095/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8201/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8252/

http://www.nessus.org/u?c2db25e7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 143663

File Name: suse_SU-2020-2813-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/9/2020

Updated: 5/11/2022

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8201

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-8252

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs12-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs12-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nodejs12-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:npm12, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/1/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-15095, CVE-2020-8201, CVE-2020-8252