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Fedora 28: FEDORA-2018-8049b2c488 Moderate: Nodejs Security Fix

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Calendar Grey April 9, 2018
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Fedora 29 nodejs security patch tackles multiple vulnerabilities to improve the safety and efficiency of web applications.
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.11.0/

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://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.11.0/

[ 1 ] Bug #1562027 - CVE-2018-7158 CVE-2018-7159 CVE-2018-7160 nodejs: various flaws [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1562027

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

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 28
Version: 8.11.0
Release: 1.fc28
Summary: JavaScript runtime

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