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Bumps electron from 8.5.5 to 11.3.0. This update includes a security fix.

Vulnerabilities fixed

Sourced from The GitHub Security Advisory Database.

IPC messages delivered to the wrong frame in Electron

Impact

IPC messages sent from the main process to a subframe in the renderer process, through webContents.sendToFrame, event.reply or when using the remote module, can in some cases be delivered to the wrong frame.

If your app does ANY of the following, then it is impacted by this issue:

  • Uses remote
  • Calls webContents.sendToFrame
  • Calls event.reply in an IPC message handler

Patches

This has been fixed in the following versions:

  • 9.4.0
  • 10.2.0
  • 11.1.0
  • 12.0.0-beta.9

Workarounds

There are no workarounds for this issue.

For more information

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Affected versions: < 9.4.0

Release notes

Sourced from electron's releases.

electron v11.3.0

Release Notes for v11.3.0

Features

  • Added allowFileAccess option to loadExtension() API. #27703 (Also in 12)
  • Added win.setTopBrowserView() so that BrowserViews can be raised. #27712 (Also in 10, 12)

Fixes

  • Backported fix for https://crbug.com/1125165. #27558
  • Fixed OS-level shortcuts on macOS (e.g. Ctrl + F2, ⌘ + ~). #27787 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed SVG content with filter sometimes not being rendered. #27699
  • Fixed a crash when calling crypto.createDiffieHellman() with certain parameters. #27766 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed a memory leak when creating BrowserWindows. #27640 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed an erroneous enableBlinkFeatures warning shown webviews which enabled no Blink features. #27789 (Also in 10, 12)
  • Fixed an issue where deleted download directories would be sometimes recreated by the operating system. #27808 (Also in 10, 12)
  • Fixed an occasional white flicker present when rendering BrowserViews in close succession. #27659 (Also in 10, 12)
  • Fixed crash when destroying WebContents in the crashed event. #27757 (Also in 10, 12)
  • Fixed memory leak when sending non-primitives over the context bridge. #27638 (Also in 10, 12)
  • Fixed native window freeze on Windows when Electron app is sent to tray and external display changes. #27669 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed svg with filter content not being rendered. #27635

Other Changes

  • Fixed crash when loading wasm modules in child node process with mac arm64 > 11.2. #27684 (Also in 12)
  • Fixed slow child process spawning on macOS Big Sur. #27654 (Also in 10, 12)
  • Reverted posix_spawn change in libuv that affected child process spawning on macOS Big Sur. #27809 (Also in 10, 12)
  • Security: backported fix for 1138143. #27780
  • Security: backported fix for 1155974. #27779
  • Security: backported fix for 1166504. #27778
  • Security: backported fix for 1170657. #27781
  • Security: backported fix for 1171954. #27777
  • Security: backported fix for 1172192. #27776
  • Security: backported fix for 1177341. #27750
  • Security: backported fix for chromium:1162942. #27614
  • Security: backported fix for https://crbug.com/1161705. #27609

Documentation

  • Documentation changes: #27817

electron v11.2.3

Release Notes for v11.2.3

Fixes

Other Changes

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Bumps [electron](https://github.com/electron/electron) from 8.5.5 to 11.3.0. **This update includes a security fix.**
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Superseded by #254.

@dependabot-preview dependabot-preview bot deleted the dependabot/npm_and_yarn/electron-11.3.0 branch March 2, 2021 07:19
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