node/test/parallel/test-zlib-failed-init.js
Myles Borins 241eb6122e
zlib: gracefully set windowBits from 8 to 9
On 4 April 2017, Node.js versions v4.8.2 and v6.10.2 were
released. These versions bumped the vendored zlib library from
v1.2.8 to v1.2.11 in response to what it describes as low-severity
CVEs. In zlib v1.2.9, a change was made that causes an error to be
raised when a raw deflate stream is initialised with windowBits set
to 8.

In zlib v1.2.9, 8 become an invalid value for this parameter, and Node's zlib
module will crash if you call this:

```
zlib.createDeflateRaw({windowBits: 8})
```

On some versions this crashes Node and you cannot recover from it, while on some
versions it throws an exception. The permessage-deflate library up to
version v0.1.5 does make such a call with no try/catch

This commit reverts to the original behavior of zlib by gracefully changed
windowBits: 8 to windowBits: 9 for raw deflate streams.

Original-PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/95
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com>

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/16511
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
2017-10-29 20:14:01 +01:00

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'use strict';
const common = require('../common');
const assert = require('assert');
const zlib = require('zlib');
common.expectsError(
() => zlib.createGzip({ chunkSize: 0 }),
{
code: 'ERR_INVALID_OPT_VALUE',
type: RangeError
}
);
common.expectsError(
() => zlib.createGzip({ windowBits: 0 }),
{
code: 'ERR_INVALID_OPT_VALUE',
type: RangeError
}
);
common.expectsError(
() => zlib.createGzip({ memLevel: 0 }),
{
code: 'ERR_INVALID_OPT_VALUE',
type: RangeError
}
);
{
const stream = zlib.createGzip({ level: NaN });
assert.strictEqual(stream._level, zlib.constants.Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION);
}
{
const stream = zlib.createGzip({ strategy: NaN });
assert.strictEqual(stream._strategy, zlib.constants.Z_DEFAULT_STRATEGY);
}