Notable changes
* buffer: Fixed a bug introduced in v4.1.0 where allocating a new
zero-length buffer can result in the next allocation of a TypedArray
in JavaScript not being zero-filled. In certain circumstances this
could result in data leakage via reuse of memory space in
TypedArrays, breaking the normally safe assumption that TypedArrays
should be always zero-filled. (Trevor Norris) #2931.
* http: Guard against response-splitting of HTTP trailing headers
added via response.addTrailers() by removing new-line ([\r\n])
characters from values. Note that standard header values are already
stripped of new-line characters. The expected security impact is low
because trailing headers are rarely used. (Ben Noordhuis) #2945.
* npm: Upgrade to npm 2.14.4 from 2.14.3, see release notes for full
details (Kat Marchán) #2958
- Upgrades graceful-fs on multiple dependencies to no longer rely on
monkey-patching fs
- Fix npm link for pre-release / RC builds of Node
* v8: Update post-mortem metadata to allow post-mortem debugging tools
to find and inspect:
- JavaScript objects that use dictionary properties
(Julien Gilli) #2959
- ScopeInfo and thus closures (Julien Gilli) #2974
* **buffer**: Fixed a bug introduced in v4.1.0 where allocating a new zero-length buffer can result in the _next_ allocation of a TypedArray in JavaScript not being zero-filled. In certain circumstances this could result in data leakage via reuse of memory space in TypedArrays, breaking the normally safe assumption that TypedArrays should be always zero-filled. (Trevor Norris) [#2931](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2931).
* **http**: Guard against response-splitting of HTTP trailing headers added via [`response.addTrailers()`](https://nodejs.org/api/http.html#http_response_addtrailers_headers) by removing new-line (`[\r\n]`) characters from values. Note that standard header values are already stripped of new-line characters. The expected security impact is low because trailing headers are rarely used. (Ben Noordhuis) [#2945](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2945).
* **npm**: Upgrade to npm 2.14.4 from 2.14.3, see [release notes](https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.14.4) for full details (Kat Marchán) [#2958](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2958)
- Upgrades `graceful-fs` on multiple dependencies to no longer rely on monkey-patching `fs`
- Fix `npm link` for pre-release / RC builds of Node
* **v8**: Update post-mortem metadata to allow post-mortem debugging tools to find and inspect:
- JavaScript objects that use dictionary properties (Julien Gilli) [#2959](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2959)
- ScopeInfo and thus closures (Julien Gilli) [#2974](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2974)
### Known issues
See https://github.com/nodejs/node/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.
* Some problems with unreferenced timers running during `beforeExit` are still to be resolved. See [#1264](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1264).
* Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. [#690](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/690)
* Calling `dns.setServers()` while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. [#894](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/894)
* `url.resolve` may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see [#1435](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1435).
### Commits
* [[`d63e02e08d`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/d63e02e08d)] - **buffer**: don't set zero fill for zero-length buffer (Trevor Norris) [#2931](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2931)
* [[`5905b14bff`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/5905b14bff)] - **build**: fix icutrim when building small-icu on BE (Stewart Addison) [#2602](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2602)
* [[`9c59d2f16a`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9c59d2f16a)] - **doc**: remove extra using v8::HandleScope statement (Christopher J. Brody) [#2983](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2983)
* [[`f542e74c93`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f542e74c93)] - **http**: guard against response splitting in trailers (Ben Noordhuis) [#2945](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2945)
* [[`bc9f629387`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bc9f629387)] - **http_parser**: do not dealloc during kOnExecute (Fedor Indutny) [#2956](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2956)
* [[`9760e04839`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/9760e04839)] - **repl**: don't use tty control codes when $TERM is set to "dumb" (Salman Aljammaz) [#2712](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2712)
* [[`4519dd00f9`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/4519dd00f9)] - **test**: test sync version of mkdir & rmdir (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2588](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2588)
* [[`816f609c8b`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/816f609c8b)] - **test**: use tmpDir instead of fixtures in readdir (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) [#2587](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2587)
* [[`2084f52585`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/2084f52585)] - **test**: test more http response splitting scenarios (Ben Noordhuis) [#2945](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2945)
* [[`71b5d80682`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/71b5d80682)] - **test**: make cluster tests more time tolerant (Michael Dawson) [#2891](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2891)
Rod Vagg
9 years ago