(RHSA-2023:1533) Important: nodejs:14 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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 (14.21.3).

Security Fix(es):

• decode-uri-component: improper input validation resulting in DoS (CVE-2022-38900)

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

• minimist: prototype pollution (CVE-2021-44906)

• nodejs-minimatch: ReDoS via the braceExpand function (CVE-2022-3517)

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

• express: “qs” prototype poisoning causes the hang of the node process (CVE-2022-24999)

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

• nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling due to incorrect parsing of header fields (CVE-2022-35256)

• nodejs: DNS rebinding in inspect via invalid octal IP address (CVE-2022-43548)

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

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

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.