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Medium RLSA-2023:1582 8 CVEs

Moderate: nodejs:16 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Apr 6, 2023 · Updated Feb 5, 2026

Summary

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 (16.19.1).

Security Fix(es):

* glob-parent: Regular Expression Denial of Service (CVE-2021-35065)

* c-ares: buffer overflow in config_sortlist() due to missing string length check (CVE-2022-4904)

* http-cache-semantics: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2022-25881)

* Node.js: Permissions policies can be bypassed via process.mainModule (CVE-2023-23918)

* Node.js: OpenSSL error handling issues in nodejs crypto library (CVE-2023-23919)

* Node.js: Fetch API did not protect against CRLF injection in host headers (CVE-2023-23936)

* Node.js: insecure loading of ICU data through ICU_DATA environment variable (CVE-2023-23920)

* Node.js: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers fetch API (CVE-2023-24807)

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 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 nodejs 1:16.19.1-1.module+el8.7.0+1178+d52dba78
Rocky Linux · 8 nodejs-nodemon 0:2.0.20-3.module+el8.7.0+1178+d52dba78
Rocky Linux · 8 nodejs-packaging 0:25-1.module+el8.6.0+1046+80feca58

Vulnerabilities 8

References

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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2156324
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2165824
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2168631
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2171935
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2172170
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2172190
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2172204
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2172217
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    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178142