Notable Changes child_process: add ‘overlapped’ stdio flag (Thiago Padilha) #29412 support AbortSignal in fork (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #36603 crypto: implement basic secure heap support (James M Snell) #36779 fixup bug in keygen error handling (James M Snell) #36779 introduce X509Certificate API (James M Snell) #36804 implement randomuuid (James M Snell) #36729 Read more…
Notable Changes Vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2020-1971: OpenSSL – EDIPARTYNAME NULL pointer de-reference (High) This is a vulnerability in OpenSSL which may be exploited through Node.js. You can read more about it in https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20201208.txt CVE-2020-8265: use-after-free in TLSWrap (High) Affected Node.js versions are vulnerable to a use-after-free bug in its TLS implementation. Read more…
Notable changes This is a security release. Vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2020-8265: use-after-free in TLSWrap (High) Affected Node.js versions are vulnerable to a use-after-free bug in its TLS implementation. When writing to a TLS enabled socket, node::StreamBase::Write calls node::TLSWrap::DoWrite with a freshly allocated WriteWrap object as first argument. If the DoWrite method Read more…
Notable changes This is a security release. Vulnerabilities fixed: CVE-2020-8265: use-after-free in TLSWrap (High) Affected Node.js versions are vulnerable to a use-after-free bug in its TLS implementation. When writing to a TLS enabled socket, node::StreamBase::Write calls node::TLSWrap::DoWrite with a freshly allocated WriteWrap object as first argument. If the DoWrite method Read more…
(Update 12-June-2018) Security releases available Summary Updates are now available for all active Node.js release lines. These include the fix for the vulnerabilities identified in the initial announcement (below). We recommend that all users upgrade as soon as possible. Downloads & release details Node.js 10.4.1 (Current) Node.js 9.11.2 Node.js 8.11.3 Read more…
(Update 28-March-2018) Security releases available Summary Updates are now available for all active Node.js release lines. These include the fix for the vulnerabilities identified in the initial announcement (below). In addition to the vulnerabilities in the initial announcement, we have also included a fix for a vulnerability in the Node.js Read more…
Summary Project zero has recently announced some new attacks that have received a lot of attention: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.ca/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html. The risk from these attacks to systems running Node.js resides in the systems in which your Node.js applications run, as opposed to the Node.js runtime itself. The trust model for Node.js assumes you Read more…
(Update 7-December-2017) Security releases available Summary Updates are now available for all active Node.js release lines. These include the fix for the vulnerability identified in the initial announcement. In addition the updates for 8.X and 9.X include a fix for a low severity buffer vulnerability as describe below. We recommend Read more…
(Update 8-Nov-2017) Node.js Releases Releases were made available for active lines yesterday, each including the OpenSSL 1.0.2m update. As we have not categorized these strictly as security releases they also contain other minor fixes and additions as per our regular release procedures. While we don’t consider OpenSSL 1.0.2m a critical Read more…
(Update 24-October-2017) Releases available Summary Updates are now available for all active Node.js release lines. These include the fix for the vulnerability identified in the initial announcement. We recommend that all users upgrade as soon as possible. Downloads Node.js v8 (Current) Node.js v6 (LTS “Boron”) Node.js v4 (LTS “Argon”) Node.js-specific Read more…
