Moderate: nodejs and nodejs-nodemon 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 (16.18.1), nodejs-nodemon (2.0.20).

Security Fix(es):

• minimist: prototype pollution (CVE-2021-44906)
• nodejs-minimatch: ReDoS via the braceExpand function (CVE-2022-3517)
• nodejs: HTTP Request Smuggling due to incorrect parsing of header fields (CVE-2022-35256)
• nodejs: DNS rebinding in inspect via invalid octal IP address (CVE-2022-43548)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• nodejs: Packaged version of undici does not fit with declared version. [almalinux-9] (BZ#2151627)