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1 | 1 | --- |
2 | | -date: 2021-02-18T16:00:00.000Z |
| 2 | +date: 2021-02-23T13:30:00.000Z |
3 | 3 | category: vulnerability |
4 | 4 | title: February 2021 Security Releases |
5 | 5 | slug: february-2021-security-releases |
6 | 6 | layout: blog-post.hbs |
7 | 7 | author: Daniel Bevenius |
8 | 8 | --- |
9 | 9 |
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10 | | -# Summary |
| 10 | +## _(Update 23-Feb-2021)_ Security releases available |
11 | 11 |
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12 | | -The Node.js project will release new versions of all supported release lines on or shortly after Tuesday, February 23th, 2021. |
| 12 | +Updates are now available for v10.x, v12.x, v14.x and v15.x Node.js release lines for the following issues. |
13 | 13 |
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14 | | -* One Critical severity issue |
15 | | -* One High severity issue |
16 | | -* One Low severity issue |
| 14 | +### HTTP2 'unknownProtocol' cause Denial of Service by resource exhaustion (Critical) (CVE-2021-22883) |
17 | 15 |
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18 | | -## Impact |
| 16 | +Affected Node.js versions are vulnerable to denial of service attacks when too many connection attempts with an 'unknownProtocol' are established. This leads to a leak of file descriptors. If a file descriptor limit is configured on the system, then the server is unable to accept new connections and prevent the process also from opening, e.g. a file. If no file descriptor limit is configured, then this lead to an excessive memory usage and cause the system to run out of memory. |
19 | 17 |
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20 | | -The 15.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to one critical severity issue, one high severity issue, and one low severity issue. |
| 18 | +Impacts: |
| 19 | +* All versions of the 15.x, 14.x, 12.x and 10.x releases lines |
21 | 20 |
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22 | | -The 14.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to one critical severity issue, one high severity issue, and one low severity issue. |
| 21 | +Thank you to OMICRON electronics for reporting this vulnerability. |
23 | 22 |
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24 | | -The 12.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to one critical severity issue, one high severity issue, and one low severity issue. |
| 23 | +### DNS rebinding in --inspect (CVE-2021-22884) |
25 | 24 |
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26 | | -The 10.x release line of Node.js is vulnerable to one critical severity issue, one high severity issue, and one low severity issue. |
| 25 | +Affected Node.js versions are vulnerable to denial of service attacks when the whitelist includes “localhost6”. When “localhost6” is not present in /etc/hosts, it is just an ordinary domain that is resolved via DNS, i.e., over network. If the attacker controls the victim's DNS server or can spoof its responses, the DNS rebinding protection can be bypassed by using the “localhost6” domain. As long as the attacker uses the “localhost6” domain, they can still apply the attack described in CVE-2018-7160. |
27 | 26 |
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28 | | -## Release timing |
| 27 | +Impacts: |
| 28 | +* All versions of the 15.x, 14.x, 12.x and 10.x releases lines |
29 | 29 |
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30 | | -Releases will be available at, or shortly after, Tuesday, February 23th, 2021. |
| 30 | +Thank you to Vít Šesták for reporting this vulnerability |
31 | 31 |
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32 | | -## Contact and future updates |
| 32 | +### OpenSSL - Integer overflow in CipherUpdate (CVE-2021-23840) |
33 | 33 |
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34 | | -The current Node.js security policy can be found at https://nodejs.org/en/security/. Please follow the process outlined in https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/SECURITY.md if you wish to report a vulnerability in Node.js. |
| 34 | +This is a vulnerability in OpenSSL which may be exploited through Node.js. You can read more about it in |
| 35 | +https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210216.txt |
35 | 36 |
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36 | | -Subscribe to the low-volume announcement-only nodejs-sec mailing list at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nodejs-sec to stay up to date on security vulnerabilities and security-related releases of Node.js and the projects maintained in the nodejs GitHub organization. |
| 37 | +Impacts: |
| 38 | +* All versions of the 15.x, 14.x, 12.x and 10.x releases lines |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +## Downloads and release details |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +* [Node.js v10.24.0 (LTS)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v10.24.0/) |
| 43 | +* [Node.js v12.21.0 (LTS)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v12.21.0/) |
| 44 | +* [Node.js v14.16.0 (LTS)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v14.16.0/) |
| 45 | +* [Node.js v15.10.0 (Current)](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v15.10.0/) |
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