Node v4.2.3 "Argon" (LTS)

Rod Vagg

This is an important security release. All Node.js users should consult our December Security Release Summary for details on patched vulnerabilities.

Notable changes(/

  • http: Fix a bug where an HTTP socket may no longer have an associated parser but a pipelined request triggers a pause or resume, a potential denial-of-service vector. (Fedor Indutny)
  • openssl: Upgrade to 1.0.2e, containing fixes for:
    • CVE-2015-3193 "BN_mod_exp may produce incorrect results on x86_64", an attack may be feasible against a Node.js TLS server using DHE key exchange. Details are available at http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20151203.txt.
    • CVE-2015-3194 "Certificate verify crash with missing PSS parameter", a potential denial-of-service vector for Node.js TLS servers using client authentication; TLS clients are also impacted. Details are available at http://openssl.org/news/secadv/20151203.txt. (Shigeki Ohtsu) #4134
  • v8: Backport fixes for a bug in JSON.stringify() that can result in out-of-bounds reads for arrays. (Ben Noordhuis)

Known issues

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [49bbd563be] - deps: upgrade openssl sources to 1.0.2e (Shigeki Ohtsu) #4134
  • [9a063fd492] - deps: backport a7e50a5 from upstream v8 (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [07233206e9] - deps: backport 6df9a1d from upstream v8 (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [1c8e6de78e] - http: fix pipeline regression (Fedor Indutny)

Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/node-v4.2.3-x86.msi
Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/node-v4.2.3-x64.msi
Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/win-x86/node.exe
Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/win-x64/node.exe
Mac OS X 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/node-v4.2.3.pkg
Mac OS X 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/node-v4.2.3-darwin-x64.tar.gz
Linux 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/node-v4.2.3-linux-x86.tar.gz
Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/node-v4.2.3-linux-x64.tar.gz
SmartOS 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/node-v4.2.3-sunos-x86.tar.gz
SmartOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/node-v4.2.3-sunos-x64.tar.gz
ARMv6 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/node-v4.2.3-linux-armv6l.tar.gz
ARMv7 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/node-v4.2.3-linux-armv7l.tar.gz
ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/node-v4.2.3-linux-arm64.tar.gz
Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/node-v4.2.3.tar.gz
Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v4.2.3/
Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v4.2.3/api/

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  1. Notable changes(/
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  3. Commits