Heroku just send out a notice to all Node.js devs they know. Super nice. :)

I think releasing a security fix ASAP and disclosing the details later on 
is a good tactic. Thanks everyone who worked on this! :)

On Saturday, October 19, 2013 2:01:31 AM UTC+2, Isaac Schlueter wrote:
>
> I understand that it's frustrating to be told that there's a security 
> vulnerability but not be given details, especially on a Friday 
> afternoon.  Please try to understand that we would not be so cagey 
> about the particulars if it was not a serious issue. 
>
> This is a DoS vulnerability affecting anyone serving HTTP with Node. 
> If you are using Node serving HTTP, you are almost certainly 
> vulnerable. 
>
> The issue is difficult to stumble upon accidentally, but trivial to 
> exploit once known.  We will be disclosing details once a reasonable 
> amount of time has passed to give users a chance to update.  (My 
> expectation is that this will be a few weeks, but we'll gauge that 
> based on feedback we receive about any problems people have 
> upgrading.) 
>
> And the timing sucks.  Again, we opted to release the fix as soon as 
> it was available, rather than wait.  Perhaps waiting until Monday 
> would've been better, I'm not sure.  You can't win with things like 
> this. 
>
> If anyone is in charge of a large production Node.js deployment, and 
> has any questions or complaints, feel free to email me directly 
> (off-list) at [email protected] <javascript:>, and I'll do my best to let you 
> know what's 
> going on. 
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Timothy J Fontaine 
> <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > This release contains a security fix for the http server implementation, 
> > please 
> > upgrade as soon as possible. Details will be released soon. 
> > 
> > 2013.10.18, Version 0.10.21 (Stable) 
> > 
> > * uv: Upgrade to v0.10.18 
> > 
> > * crypto: clear errors from verify failure (Timothy J Fontaine) 
> > 
> > * dtrace: interpret two byte strings (Dave Pacheco) 
> > 
> > * fs: fix fs.truncate() file content zeroing bug (Ben Noordhuis) 
> > 
> > * http: provide backpressure for pipeline flood (isaacs) 
> > 
> > * tls: fix premature connection termination (Ben Noordhuis) 
> > 
> > 
> > Source Code: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.21/node-v0.10.21.tar.gz 
> > 
> > Macintosh Installer (Universal): 
> > http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.21/node-v0.10.21.pkg 
> > 
> > Windows Installer: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.21/node-v0.10.21-x86.msi 
> > 
> > Windows x64 Installer: 
> > http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.21/x64/node-v0.10.21-x64.msi 
> > 
> > Windows x64 Files: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.21/x64/ 
> > 
> > Linux 32-bit Binary: 
> > http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.21/node-v0.10.21-linux-x86.tar.gz 
> > 
> > Linux 64-bit Binary: 
> > http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.21/node-v0.10.21-linux-x64.tar.gz 
> > 
> > Solaris 32-bit Binary: 
> > http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.21/node-v0.10.21-sunos-x86.tar.gz 
> > 
> > Solaris 64-bit Binary: 
> > http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.21/node-v0.10.21-sunos-x64.tar.gz 
> > 
> > Other release files: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.21/ 
> > 
> > Website: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.10.21/ 
> > 
> > Documentation: http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.10.21/api/ 
> > 
> > Shasums: 
> > ``` 
> > fb1318fb7721aa292310599e7c6696edebcfd70d 
>  node-v0.10.21-darwin-x64.tar.gz 
> > 486235cc54d269d1961dfb150b1479ec14e83541 
>  node-v0.10.21-darwin-x86.tar.gz 
> > 7528d2fa240a5dd88d37e4847cebec50ef40c8eb  node-v0.10.21-linux-x64.tar.gz 
> > b372abf9d9c53bfe675e2c3f71dcfdece44edddd  node-v0.10.21-linux-x86.tar.gz 
> > cb873cdff3f30aa198b52c8be3588745d2ee3933  node-v0.10.21-sunos-x64.tar.gz 
> > 020d202d7066b68f160d0ceebe8cc8306de25956  node-v0.10.21-sunos-x86.tar.gz 
> > 037ea0e3be3512da2bc94aa765fa89d61da3e275  node-v0.10.21-x86.msi 
> > de2bd0e858f99098ef24f99f972b8088c1f0405c  node-v0.10.21.pkg 
> > b7fd2a3660635af40e3719ca0db49280d10359b2  node-v0.10.21.tar.gz 
> > a0e3988170beee1273a2fb6d650bf17db8495c67  node.exe 
> > 99332a03aeba8a22254d671665b9b2161a64bd84  node.exp 
> > 263dafeec907bd1f28ceb8272b9caaadceacb4d6  node.lib 
> > 76d578bf352772dc4db9ebb95fb61cf18e34c80d  node.pdb 
> > b6d11b67ce7aaff5c7a456a4c85c80849a3d576e  pkgsrc/nodejs-ia32-0.10.21.tgz 
> > b116825d1d2cbcfd567f730b1c2452424508b062  pkgsrc/nodejs-x64-0.10.21.tgz 
> > 29632c5a21a4ebf89703e417852306a676f6ede8  x64/node-v0.10.21-x64.msi 
> > 033b0a2b57e031a9e47f0b28eb4dc50a5389b592  x64/node.exe 
> > f62b53229d77eaddf1f3a7909ef6533eea0e2295  x64/node.exp 
> > 8d5cfe83c3bc78ddcf79de9d065d1b4f2af9347e  x64/node.lib 
> > 6844e78e9ba80bfa48f6c150544e3e73d83dd316  x64/node.pdb 
> > ``` 
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