Webpack version 0.4.10 marks a subtle but potentially important update over its predecessor, 0.4.9. Both versions serve the core function of packing CommonJs modules for browser deployment, enabling developers to split codebases into manageable bundles loaded on demand. This is a fundamental capability for optimizing web application performance, allowing for faster initial load times and efficient resource utilization. Key features include out-of-the-box support for various file types like JavaScript, JSON, Jade, CoffeeScript, and CSS, along with extensibility through custom loaders. Version 0.4.10 maintains strong dependencies, including esprima for JavaScript parsing, sprintf for string formatting, optimist for command-line argument parsing, uglify-js for code minification, and a suite of loaders for handling CSS, raw files, values, files, Jade templates, JSON data, LESS stylesheets, styles, bundles, CoffeeScript, and scripts. The development dependencies for both versions are mocha for testing and should for assertions. The noticeable change lies in the file-loader entry added to the dependencies of version 0.4.10. While version 0.4.9 did not mention file-loader, it is possible that it was included in the library or was provided through some extension. Upgrading to 0.4.10 might be valuable to explicitly define file-loader as a dependency. Both versions are MIT licensed and authored by Tobias Koppers.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.4.10 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.
Regular Expression Denial of Service in clean-css
Version of clean-css prior to 4.1.11 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). Untrusted input may cause catastrophic backtracking while matching regular expressions. This can cause the application to be unresponsive leading to Denial of Service.
Upgrade to version 4.1.11 or higher.
Sandbox Bypass Leading to Arbitrary Code Execution in constantinople
Versions of constantinople prior to 3.1.1 are vulnerable to a sandbox bypass which can lead to arbitrary code execution.
Update to version 3.1.1 or later.