Browserify, a pivotal tool for JavaScript developers aiming to leverage Node.js-style require() statements within browser environments, saw a minor version bump from 1.10.6 to 1.10.7, released on April 6, 2012, succeeding the March 28, 2012 release. Examining the package metadata reveals that the core dependencies remain identical between the two versions. Both rely on modules like nub, deputy, resolve, optimist, commondir, and detective for dependency resolution and management. The development dependencies, crucial for testing and building, also exhibit complete parity, featuring tools like seq, tap, jade, lazy, dnode, connect, hashish, backbone, ecstatic, traverse, and jquery-browserify.
Given the unchanged dependencies and devDependencies, the update likely addresses internal bug fixes, performance enhancements, or documentation improvements. While a seemingly small increment, developers should consider upgrading to 1.10.7 to benefit from these potential refinements, ensuring a more stable and optimized build process for browser-based JavaScript applications. Developers using Browserify will find that the upgrade is seamless, given the consistency of declared packages, but should always run their test suites after upgrading any dependency. It ensures compatibility and avoids possible regressions from the update. The core functionality remains consistent, focusing on enabling modular JavaScript development for the browser.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 1.10.7 of the package
Incorrect Handling of Non-Boolean Comparisons During Minification in uglify-js
Versions of uglify-js prior to 2.4.24 are affected by a vulnerability which may cause crafted JavaScript to have altered functionality after minification.
Upgrade UglifyJS to version >= 2.4.24.
Regular Expression Denial of Service in uglify-js
Versions of uglify-js prior to 2.6.0 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when malicious inputs are passed into the parse() method.
var u = require('uglify-js');
var genstr = function (len, chr) {
var result = "";
for (i=0; i<=len; i++) {
result = result + chr;
}
return result;
}
u.parse("var a = " + genstr(process.argv[2], "1") + ".1ee7;");
$ time node test.js 10000
real 0m1.091s
user 0m1.047s
sys 0m0.039s
$ time node test.js 80000
real 0m6.486s
user 0m6.229s
sys 0m0.094s
Update to version 2.6.0 or later.