November 2018 Security Releases

November 2018 Security Releases Update 27-November-2018 Security releases available Summary Updates are now available for all active Node.js release lines. These include fixes for the vulnerabilities identified in the initial announcement below. They also include upgrades of Node.js 6 and 8 to...

Cross site scripting

Calling Buffer.fill or Buffer.alloc with some parameters can lead to a hang which could result in a Denial of Service. In order to address this vulnerability, the implementations of Buffer.alloc and Buffer.fill were updated so that they zero fill instead of hanging in these cases. All versions of...

CVE-2018-7167

Calling Buffer.fill or Buffer.alloc with some parameters can lead to a hang which could result in a Denial of Service. In order to address this vulnerability, the implementations of Buffer.alloc and Buffer.fill were updated so that they zero fill instead of hanging in these cases. All versions of...