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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2017-336197c5a0 Moderate: nodejs Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey October 2, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest update for Fedora 27's Node.js resolves various security vulnerabilities alongside performance improvements and corrections. Essential information outlined within.
https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v8.6.0/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs-sec/EatXB-MujW0

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.

https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v8.6.0/doc/changelogs/CHANGELOG_V8.md

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs-sec/EatXB-MujW0

[ 1 ] Bug #1491069 - nodejs-8.6.0 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491069

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

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 8.6.0
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: JavaScript runtime

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