[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#797545: libv8-3.14-dev: better fix for REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8

[Ximin Luo]

Package: libv8-3.14-dev
Version: 3.14.5.8-10
Severity: normal

Hi,

It's not so clear that the recent workaround for REPLACE_INVALID_UTF8 is
such a good idea. In general, this sort of thing has the potential to lead
to security problems.

nodejs themselves manually patched their bundeled version of v8 specifically for this bug, see:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/commits/v0.10.38-release/deps/v8/include/v8.h

which points to:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/881ac26f27f4ac9585d66c8d8a67d5b246a23d1b#diff-42f385dff7890b3c213d9699bcc350cc

We should probably import this, instead of the current "fix".

X

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libv8-3.14-dev depends on:
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