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Medium ALAS2023-2025-796 1 CVE

Moderate: nodejs security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Jan 6, 2025 · Updated Jan 9, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-21538: Versions of the package cross-spawn before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.

Fixed packages 10

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs 1:18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-debuginfo 1:18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-debugsource 1:18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-devel 1:18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-docs 1:18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-full-i18n 1:18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-libs 1:18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-libs-debuginfo 1:18.20.5-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 nodejs-npm 1:10.8.2-1.18.20.5.1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 v8-10.2-devel 3:10.2.154.26-1.18.20.5.1.amzn2023.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-21538.html