SB20250219826 - Amazon Linux AMI update for nodejs

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SB20250219826 - Amazon Linux AMI update for nodejs

Published: February 19, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB20250219826
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25883)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application via the new Range function and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


2) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-35945)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak when handling HTTP/2 requests within the nghttp2 codec. A remote attacker can send RST_STREAM immediately followed by the GOAWAY frames to the application and force memory leak.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References