v10.24.1 proposal

2021-04-06, Version 10.24.1 'Dubnium' (LTS), @mylesborins

This is a security release

Notable Changes

Vulerabilties 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

• [5e526b96ce] - deps: upgrade npm to 6.14.12 (Ruy Adorno) #37918
• [781cb6df5c] - deps: update archs files for OpenSSL-1.1.1k (Tobias Nießen) #37940
• [5db0a05a90] - deps: upgrade openssl sources to 1.1.1k (Tobias Nießen) #37940