[Buildroot] [PATCH] nodejs: security bump to version 8.8.0

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Thu Oct 26 06:59:33 UTC 2017


Fixes CVE-2017-14919 - In zlib v1.2.9, a change was made that causes an
error to be raised when a raw deflate stream is initialized with windowBits
set to 8.  On some versions this crashes Node and you cannot recover from
it, while on some versions it throws an exception.  Node.js will now
gracefully set windowBits to 9 replicating the legacy behavior to avoid a
DOS vector.

For more details, see the announcement:
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/oct-2017-dos/

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
---
 package/nodejs/nodejs.hash | 4 ++--
 package/nodejs/nodejs.mk   | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package/nodejs/nodejs.hash b/package/nodejs/nodejs.hash
index 3cc77b2524..30497eac53 100644
--- a/package/nodejs/nodejs.hash
+++ b/package/nodejs/nodejs.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-# From http://nodejs.org/dist/v8.6.0/SHASUMS256.txt
-sha256 b17071109238295b9f363b768afdff97a9f386203d4f080c91847ce76d4f7e93  node-v8.6.0.tar.xz
+# From http://nodejs.org/dist/v8.8.0/SHASUMS256.txt
+sha256 854f32d27cd62895a13a6af43b87e0542f512f40af960244d15cf16da0914ecf  node-v8.8.0.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/nodejs/nodejs.mk b/package/nodejs/nodejs.mk
index c1bac35a64..8c30cb96d3 100644
--- a/package/nodejs/nodejs.mk
+++ b/package/nodejs/nodejs.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-NODEJS_VERSION = 8.6.0
+NODEJS_VERSION = 8.8.0
 NODEJS_SOURCE = node-v$(NODEJS_VERSION).tar.xz
 NODEJS_SITE = http://nodejs.org/dist/v$(NODEJS_VERSION)
 NODEJS_DEPENDENCIES = host-python host-nodejs c-ares \
-- 
2.11.0



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