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ALSA-2023:1582 Not scored

Moderate: nodejs:16 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 (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.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published April 4, 2023
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:8 nodejs
AlmaLinux:8 nodejs-devel
AlmaLinux:8 nodejs-docs
AlmaLinux:8 nodejs-full-i18n
AlmaLinux:8 nodejs-nodemon
AlmaLinux:8 nodejs-packaging
AlmaLinux:8 npm

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2023:1582

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.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence