Thanks for the explanation Isaac, for what it's worth I'm glad to have the fix as early as possible, and agree with Jan that your strategy of releasing the fix asap and delaying the explanation is a good one.
IMO critical security issues can hurt confidence in a platform, but behaviour like this does the opposite. Good work, and thanks :) On Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:01:31 AM UTC+11, 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. 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