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  • ​Show-stopping bug appears in npm Node.js package manager

    Are you a developer who uses npm as the package manager for your JavaScript or Node.js code? If so, do not -- I repeat do not -- upgrade to npm 5.7.0. Nothing good can come of it. As one user reported, "This destroyed 3 production servers after a single deploy!"

    So, what happened here? According to the npm GitHub bug report, "By running sudo npm under a non-root user (root users do not have the same effect), filesystem permissions are being heavily modified. For example, if I run sudo npm --help or sudo npm update -g, both commands cause my filesystem to change ownership of directories such as /etc, /usr, /boot, and other directories needed for running the system. It appears that the ownership is recursively changed to the user currently running npm."

  • Botched npm Update Crashes Linux Systems, Forces Users to Reinstall

    A bug in npm (Node Package Manager), the most widely used JavaScript package manager, will change ownership of crucial Linux system folders, such as /etc, /usr, /boot.

    Changing ownership of these files either crashes the system, various local apps, or prevents the system from booting, according to reports from users who installed npm v5.7.0. —the buggy npm update.

Unlucky Linux boxes trampled by NPM code update, patch zapped

  • Unlucky Linux boxes trampled by NPM code update, patch zapped

    NPM – the biz behind the Node.js package management software used to wrangle JavaScript code and various related frameworks – on Thursday undid a code update less than 24 hours after it was issued because the software was messing with Linux file permissions.

    The release of npm 5.7.0 on Wednesday – under the company's pre-release next distribution tag rather than its stable distribution tag – prompted reports of server crashes, application failures, and other undesirable behavior for Linux users.

Buggy update to JavaScript package manager npm...

  • Buggy update to JavaScript package manager npm is crashing Linux systems

    A SECURITY BUG has been found in one of the most popular JavaScript package managers, which changes ownership of crucial Linux system folders, such as ‘/etc', ‘/usr', and ‘boot', without users' permission.

    Found in the Node Package Manager, or npm as it is more commonly called, the bug caused the system to crash and also cause various local apps to crash, or even prevent the system from booting if the ownership of the files is changed.

Framed as security issue

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