[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2016:2496-1: important: Security update for nodejs

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openSUSE Security Update: Security update for nodejs

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2016:2496-1

Rating: important

References: #1001652 #985201

Cross-References: CVE-2016-1669 CVE-2016-2178 CVE-2016-2183

CVE-2016-5325 CVE-2016-6304 CVE-2016-6306

CVE-2016-7052 CVE-2016-7099

Affected Products:

openSUSE Leap 42.1

openSUSE 13.2

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An update that fixes 8 vulnerabilities is now available.

 

Description:

 

This update brings the new upstream nodejs LTS version 4.6.0, fixing bugs

and security issues:

 

* Nodejs embedded openssl version update

+ upgrade to 1.0.2j (CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-2183, CVE-2016-2178,

CVE-2016-6306, CVE-2016-7052)

+ remove support for dynamic 3rd party engine modules

* http: Properly validate for allowable characters in input user data.

This introduces a new case where throw may occur when configuring HTTP

responses, users should already be adopting try/catch here.

(CVE-2016-5325, bsc#985201)

* tls: properly validate wildcard certificates (CVE-2016-7099, bsc#1001652)

* buffer: Zero-fill excess bytes in new Buffer objects created with

Buffer.concat()

 

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

 

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1172=1

 

- openSUSE 13.2:

 

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2016-1172=1

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

 

nodejs-4.6.0-33.1

nodejs-debuginfo-4.6.0-33.1

nodejs-debugsource-4.6.0-33.1

nodejs-devel-4.6.0-33.1

npm-4.6.0-33.1

 

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (noarch):

 

nodejs-docs-4.6.0-33.1

 

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

 

nodejs-4.6.0-24.2

nodejs-debuginfo-4.6.0-24.2

nodejs-debugsource-4.6.0-24.2

nodejs-devel-4.6.0-24.2

 

- openSUSE 13.2 (noarch):

 

nodejs-doc-4.6.0-24.2

 

 

References:

 

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1669.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2178.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2183.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5325.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6304.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6306.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7052.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-7099.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1001652

https://bugzilla.suse.com/985201

 

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