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Malicious npm Packages Inject SSH Backdoors via Typosquatted Libraries
Socket’s threat research team has detected six malicious npm packages typosquatting popular libraries to insert SSH backdoors.
Takes all parameters but the last (the callback) and calls the callback with the first parameters on process.nextTick
. Use case is where you need to bail out early many times e.g. during validation.
It will not save your ass like dezalgo
does.
$ npm install bail-out --save
With bail-out
.
var bail = require('bail-out')
var fs = require('fs')
var path = require('path')
var home = require('home-dir')
function checkThisOut(opts, cb) {
if (typeof opts.foo != 'string') return bail(new Error('foo not string'), cb)
fs.readFile(path.join(home(), opts.foo), cb)
}
function checkThatOut(opts, cb) {
if (typeof opts.bar != 'number') return bail(new Error('bar not number'), cb)
fs.readFile(path.join(home(), opts.bar), cb)
}
Without bail-out
.
var fs = require('fs')
var path = require('path')
var home = require('home-dir')
function checkThisOut(opts, cb) {
if (typeof opts.foo != 'string') {
return process.nextTick(function () {
cb(new Error('foo not string'))
})
}
fs.readFile(path.join(home(), opts.foo), cb)
}
function checkThatOut(opts, cb) {
if (typeof opts.bar != 'number') {
return process.nextTick(function () {
cb(new Error('bar not number'))
})
}
fs.readFile(path.join(home(), opts.bar, cb)
}
All code, unless stated otherwise, is licensed under the WTFPL
.
FAQs
calls callback with error in nextTick
The npm package bail-out receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, bail-out popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that bail-out demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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