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vm.compileFunction is crashing the node process with unknown error

  • Version: 10.15.3
  • Platform: Windows 10
  • Subsystem: vm

The following simple script crashes the node process with no apparent reason:

const vm = require('vm');
console.log(process.version);
vm.compileFunction('return', ['ab'.replace('b', 'b'.repeat(12)).split('').join('')]);
console.log('compiled ok 1');
vm.compileFunction('return', ['ab'.replace('b', 'b'.repeat(11))]);
console.log('compiled ok 2');
try {
    vm.compileFunction('return', ['ab'.replace('b', 'b'.repeat(12))]); // crash here
    console.log('compiled ok 3');
} catch (e) { // no exception was caught
    console.error(e);
}

Output:

v10.15.3
compiled ok 1
compiled ok 2