[RHSA-2021:5171] 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 (16.13.1), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.15). (BZ#2027610)

Security Fix(es):

• nodejs-json-schema: Prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2021-3918)

• nodejs-ini: Prototype pollution via malicious INI file (CVE-2020-7788)

• nodejs-glob-parent: Regular expression denial of service (CVE-2020-28469)

• nodejs-ansi-regex: Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) matching ANSI escape codes (CVE-2021-3807)

• normalize-url: ReDoS for data URLs (CVE-2021-33502)

• llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling due to spaces in headers (CVE-2021-22959)

• llhttp: HTTP Request Smuggling when parsing the body of chunked requests (CVE-2021-22960)

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.