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Fedora 24 Node.js Patch 2017-bb55304b64 Urgent: c-ares Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 24 delivers essential security patch for Node.js, addressing significant weaknesses and enhancing protective capabilities.
[Security update](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/july-2017-security-releases/)

Summary

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime

for easily building fast, scalable network applications.

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that

makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive

real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

[Security update](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/july-2017-security-releases/)

[ 1 ] Bug #1463137 - CVE-2017-1000381 nodejs: c-ares: NAPTR parser out of bounds access [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1463137

su -c 'dnf upgrade nodejs' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.8.4
Release: 6.fc24
Summary: JavaScript runtime

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