BSON, a crucial package for Node.js and browser environments, facilitates the parsing of BSON (Binary JSON) data. Versions 0.2.6 and 0.2.7, both designed with the same core functionality, share several characteristics. Each version relies on nan (version ~0.8.0) as a dependency, ensuring compatibility with various Node.js versions when dealing with native addons. Development dependencies, including one (2.X.X), gleak (0.2.3), and nodeunit (0.8.2), remain consistent, indicating a similar testing and development environment. Both versions are maintained within the same GitHub repository under mongodb/js-bson, ensuring a clear source of truth and version control history. The author, Christian Amor Kvalheim, remains the same across both iterations.
The key difference lies in the release date. Version 0.2.7 was published on February 26, 2014, while version 0.2.6 was released on February 17, 2014. This nine-day gap suggests that version 0.2.7 likely includes bug fixes, performance improvements, or minor feature enhancements over its predecessor. While the specific changes aren't detailed in this metadata, developers should consider upgrading to the newer version (0.2.7) to benefit from any potential stability or efficiency gains made during that period. For developers already on 0.2.6 the update to 0.2.7 should be seamless and could provide improvements, while new users are encouraged to directly adopt the latest stable version, which at the time was 0.2.7.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.2.7 of the package
Deserialization of Untrusted Data in bson
Incorrect parsing of certain JSON input may result in js-bson not correctly serializing BSON. This may cause unexpected application behaviour including data disclosure.
Deserialization of Untrusted Data in bson
All versions of bson before 1.1.4 are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data. The package will ignore an unknown value for an object's _bsontype, leading to cases where an object is serialized as a document rather than the intended BSON type.
