2016-03-08 Version 0.12.12 (LTS) Release

Notable changes:

* openssl: Fully remove SSLv2 support, the `--enable-ssl2` command
  line argument will now produce an error. The DROWN Attack
  (https://drownattack.com/) creates a vulnerability where SSLv2 is
  enabled by a server, even if a client connection is not using SSLv2.
  The SSLv2 protocol is widely considered unacceptably broken and
  should not be supported. More information is available at
  https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0800

Note that the upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.1s in Node.js v0.12.11 removed
internal SSLv2 support. The change in this release was originally
intended for v0.12.11. The `--enable-ssl2` command line argument now
produces an error rather than being a no-op.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/nodejs.org/pull/562

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
 # Node.js ChangeLog
 
+## 2016-03-08, Version 0.12.12 (LTS), @rvagg
+
+### Notable changes:
+
+* openssl: Fully remove SSLv2 support, the `--enable-ssl2` command line argument will now produce an error. The DROWN Attack (https://drownattack.com/) creates a vulnerability where SSLv2 is enabled by a server, even if a client connection is not using SSLv2. The SSLv2 protocol is widely considered unacceptably broken and should not be supported. More information is available at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0800
+
+Note that the upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.1s in Node.js v0.12.11 removed internal SSLv2 support. The change in this release was originally intended for v0.12.11. The `--enable-ssl2` command line argument now produces an error rather than being a no-op.
+
+### Commits:
+
+* [dbfc9d9241] - crypto,tls: remove SSLv2 support (Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5536
+
 ## 2016-03-04, Version 0.10.43 (Maintenance), @rvagg
 
 ### Notable changes:
@@ -32,7 +44,7 @@
 * domains:
   - Prevent an exit due to an exception being thrown rather than emitting an 'uncaughtException' event on the `process` object when no error handler is set on the domain within which an error is thrown and an 'uncaughtException' event listener is set on `process`. (Julien Gilli) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3885
   - Fix an issue where the process would not abort in the proper function call if an error is thrown within a domain with no error handler and `--abort-on-uncaught-exception` is used. (Julien Gilli) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/3885
-* openssl: Upgrade from 1.0.2f to 1.0.2g (Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5509
+* openssl: Upgrade from 1.0.1r to 1.0.1s (Ben Noordhuis) https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5509
   - Fix a double-free defect in parsing malformed DSA keys that may potentially be used for DoS or memory corruption attacks. It is likely to be very difficult to use this defect for a practical attack and is therefore considered low severity for Node.js users. More info is available at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0705
   - Fix a defect that can cause memory corruption in certain very rare cases relating to the internal `BN_hex2bn()` and `BN_dec2bn()` functions. It is believed that Node.js is not invoking the code paths that use these functions so practical attacks via Node.js using this defect are _unlikely_ to be possible. More info is available at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0797
   - Fix a defect that makes the CacheBleed Attack (https://ssrg.nicta.com.au/projects/TS/cachebleed/) possible. This defect enables attackers to execute side-channel attacks leading to the potential recovery of entire RSA private keys. It only affects the Intel Sandy Bridge (and possibly older) microarchitecture when using hyper-threading. Newer microarchitectures, including Haswell, are unaffected. More info is available at https://www.openssl.org/news/vulnerabilities.html#2016-0702