v14.16.1 proposal

2021-04-06, Version 14.16.1 'Fermium' (LTS), @mylesborins

This is a security release.

Notable Changes

Vulnerabilities fixed:

• CVE-2021-3450: OpenSSL - CA certificate check bypass with X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT (High)
  • This is a vulnerability in OpenSSL which may be exploited through Node.js. You can read more about it in https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210325.txt
  • Impacts:
    • All versions of the 15.x, 14.x, 12.x and 10.x releases lines
• CVE-2021-3449: OpenSSL - NULL pointer deref in signature_algorithms processing (High)
  • This is a vulnerability in OpenSSL which may be exploited through Node.js. You can read more about it in https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20210325.txt
  • Impacts:
    • All versions of the 15.x, 14.x, 12.x and 10.x releases lines
• CVE-2020-7774: npm upgrade - Update y18n to fix Prototype-Pollution (High)
  • This is a vulnerability in the y18n NPM module which may be exploited by prototype pollution. You can read more about it in https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c4w7-xm78-47vh
  • Impacts:
    • All versions of the 14.x, 12.x and 10.x releases lines

Commits

• [467be7a950] - deps: upgrade npm to 6.14.12 (Ruy Adorno) #37918
• [6bc8f58182] - deps: update archs files for OpenSSL-1.1.1k (Tobias Nießen) #37938
• [403a014ef6] - deps: upgrade openssl sources to 1.1.1k (Tobias Nießen) #37938