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Medium ALSA-2025:7502 1 CVE

Moderate: nodejs22 security update

Published May 13, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime \ for easily building fast, scalable network applications. \ Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that \ makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive \ real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Security Fix(es):

* c-ares: c-ares has a use-after-free in read_answers() (CVE-2025-31498)

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.

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 10 nodejs 1:22.15.0-1.el10_0
AlmaLinux · 10 nodejs-devel 1:22.15.0-1.el10_0
AlmaLinux · 10 nodejs-docs 1:22.15.0-1.el10_0
AlmaLinux · 10 nodejs-full-i18n 1:22.15.0-1.el10_0
AlmaLinux · 10 nodejs-libs 1:22.15.0-1.el10_0
AlmaLinux · 10 nodejs-npm 1:10.9.2-1.22.15.0.1.el10_0

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 8.3

    c-ares has a use-after-free in read_answers()

    c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. From 1.32.3 through 1.34.4, there is a use-after-free in read_answers() when process_answer() may re-enqueue a query either due to a DNS Cookie Failure or when the upstream server does not properly support EDNS, or …

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-31498
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2358271
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2025-7502.html