RHSA-2020:2625: Moderate: rh-nodejs8-nodejs security update

First published: Thu Jun 18 2020(Updated: )

Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language.<br>The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-nodejs8-nodejs (8.17.0). (BZ#1829414)<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> nodejs-brace-expansion: Regular expression denial of service (CVE-2017-18077)</li> <li> nodejs-chownr: TOCTOU vulnerability in `chownr` function in chownr.js (CVE-2017-18869)</li> <li> nodejs-sshpk: ReDoS when parsing crafted invalid public keys in lib/formats/ssh.js (CVE-2018-3737)</li> <li> nodejs-deep-extend: Prototype pollution can allow attackers to modify object properties (CVE-2018-3750)</li> <li> npm: Symlink reference outside of node_modules folder through the bin field upon installation (CVE-2019-16775)</li> <li> npm: Arbitrary file write via constructed entry in the package.json bin field (CVE-2019-16776)</li> <li> npm: Global node_modules Binary Overwrite (CVE-2019-16777)</li> 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.

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