Ansi-html is a lightweight and efficient JavaScript library designed to translate text styled with ANSI escape codes (often created using libraries like Chalk) into clean, presentable HTML. This allows developers to seamlessly display console output, complete with colors and formatting, within web browsers or other HTML-based environments. Version 0.0.5, released in November 2015, offers a subtle but important upgrade over its predecessor, version 0.0.4, released in December 2014.
The key change lies in the updated dependency on the "chalk" library, a popular tool for adding ANSI colors and styles to console output. Version 0.0.5 bumps the compatible chalk version up to "~1.1.1", whereas version 0.0.4 supports "~0.5.1". This seemingly small adjustment ensures better compatibility with more recent versions of Chalk and potentially incorporates bug fixes and performance improvements from that dependency.
For developers already using Chalk in their projects, this update provides a smoother integration experience with the latest features and optimizations in the Chalk ecosystem. If you're not heavily reliant on older Chalk versions, upgrading to ansi-html version 0.0.5 is recommended to benefit from improved compatibility and potential performance gains related to ANSI code conversion. Both versions maintain the core functionality of converting ANSI styled text to HTML, licensed under Apache 2.0, and are readily available via npm.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.0.5 of the package
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in ansi-html
This affects all versions of package ansi-html. If an attacker provides a malicious string, it will get stuck processing the input for an extremely long time.
