- Fixed high‑severity CVE‑2021‑22931: added proper validation of atypical characters in DNS hostnames to prevent RCE, XSS and domain hijacking.
- Patched high‑severity CVE‑2021‑22940: resolved a use‑after‑free vulnerability in HTTP/2 stream cancellation handling.
- Corrected low‑severity CVE‑2021‑22939: validated "rejectUnauthorized" parameter when undefined to reject expired certificates.
2021-08-11, Version 14.17.5 'Fermium' (LTS), @BethGriggs
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