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Feb 2021

10m 55s

3 New Ways to Crash your NodeJS Server, ...

About this episode

Nodejs Updates are now available for v10.x, v12.x, v14.x and v15.x Node.js release lines for the following issues.

0:00 Intro

1:50 HTTP/2 Unknown Protocol

4:24 Localhost6 DNS Rebinding

6:55 Integer overflow OpenSSL

Resources

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2021-security-releases/

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