diff --git a/lib/buffer.js b/lib/buffer.js
index 482c2b6cab17a6..57d6cddbaa2e6b 100644
--- a/lib/buffer.js
+++ b/lib/buffer.js
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ const {
   Array,
   ArrayIsArray,
   ArrayPrototypeForEach,
-  Error,
   MathFloor,
   MathMin,
   MathTrunc,
@@ -99,7 +98,8 @@ const {
     ERR_MISSING_ARGS,
     ERR_UNKNOWN_ENCODING
   },
-  hideStackFrames
+  genericNodeError,
+  hideStackFrames,
 } = require('internal/errors');
 const {
   validateArray,
@@ -1207,10 +1207,10 @@ if (internalBinding('config').hasIntl) {
       return result;
 
     const code = icuErrName(result);
-    // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax
-    const err = new Error(`Unable to transcode Buffer [${code}]`);
-    err.code = code;
-    err.errno = result;
+    const err = genericNodeError(
+      `Unable to transcode Buffer [${code}]`,
+      { code: code, errno: result }
+    );
     throw err;
   };
 }
diff --git a/lib/child_process.js b/lib/child_process.js
index a7ef8ba1e4af1a..415010241cdaba 100644
--- a/lib/child_process.js
+++ b/lib/child_process.js
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ const {
   ArrayPrototypeSort,
   ArrayPrototypeSplice,
   ArrayPrototypeUnshift,
-  Error,
   NumberIsInteger,
   ObjectAssign,
   ObjectDefineProperty,
@@ -62,6 +61,7 @@ const { Pipe, constants: PipeConstants } = internalBinding('pipe_wrap');
 const {
   AbortError,
   codes: errorCodes,
+  genericNodeError,
 } = require('internal/errors');
 const {
   ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE,
@@ -395,11 +395,11 @@ function execFile(file, args = [], options, callback) {
       cmd += ` ${ArrayPrototypeJoin(args, ' ')}`;
 
     if (!ex) {
-      // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax
-      ex = new Error('Command failed: ' + cmd + '\n' + stderr);
-      ex.killed = child.killed || killed;
-      ex.code = code < 0 ? getSystemErrorName(code) : code;
-      ex.signal = signal;
+      ex = genericNodeError(`Command failed: ${cmd}\n${stderr}`, {
+        code: code < 0 ? getSystemErrorName(code) : code,
+        killed: child.killed || killed,
+        signal: signal
+      });
     }
 
     ex.cmd = cmd;
@@ -819,16 +819,13 @@ function checkExecSyncError(ret, args, cmd) {
   let err;
   if (ret.error) {
     err = ret.error;
+    ObjectAssign(err, ret);
   } else if (ret.status !== 0) {
     let msg = 'Command failed: ';
     msg += cmd || ArrayPrototypeJoin(args, ' ');
     if (ret.stderr && ret.stderr.length > 0)
       msg += `\n${ret.stderr.toString()}`;
-    // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax
-    err = new Error(msg);
-  }
-  if (err) {
-    ObjectAssign(err, ret);
+    err = genericNodeError(msg, ret);
   }
   return err;
 }
diff --git a/lib/events.js b/lib/events.js
index e140c1a5f3d6bd..9162e8ca8b273c 100644
--- a/lib/events.js
+++ b/lib/events.js
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ const {
     ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE,
     ERR_UNHANDLED_ERROR
   },
+  genericNodeError,
 } = require('internal/errors');
 
 const {
@@ -597,15 +598,10 @@ function _addListener(target, type, listener, prepend) {
     if (m > 0 && existing.length > m && !existing.warned) {
       existing.warned = true;
       // No error code for this since it is a Warning
-      // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax
-      const w = new Error('Possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. ' +
-                          `${existing.length} ${String(type)} listeners ` +
-                          `added to ${inspect(target, { depth: -1 })}. Use ` +
-                          'emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit');
-      w.name = 'MaxListenersExceededWarning';
-      w.emitter = target;
-      w.type = type;
-      w.count = existing.length;
+      const w = genericNodeError(
+        `Possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. ${existing.length} ${String(type)} listeners ` +
+        `added to ${inspect(target, { depth: -1 })}. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit`,
+        { name: 'MaxListenersExceededWarning', emitter: target, type: type, count: existing.length });
       process.emitWarning(w);
     }
   }
diff --git a/lib/internal/errors.js b/lib/internal/errors.js
index 0ef58432391f39..2cbac1735e2b29 100644
--- a/lib/internal/errors.js
+++ b/lib/internal/errors.js
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ const {
   MathMax,
   Number,
   NumberIsInteger,
+  ObjectAssign,
   ObjectDefineProperty,
   ObjectDefineProperties,
   ObjectIsExtensible,
@@ -827,34 +828,50 @@ class AbortError extends Error {
     this.name = 'AbortError';
   }
 }
+
+/**
+ * This creates a generic Node.js error.
+ *
+ * @param {string} message The error message.
+ * @param {object} errorProperties Object with additional properties to be added to the error.
+ * @returns {Error}
+ */
+const genericNodeError = hideStackFrames(function genericNodeError(message, errorProperties) {
+  // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax
+  const err = new Error(message);
+  ObjectAssign(err, errorProperties);
+  return err;
+});
+
 module.exports = {
+  AbortError,
   aggregateTwoErrors,
+  captureLargerStackTrace,
   codes,
+  connResetException,
   dnsException,
+  // This is exported only to facilitate testing.
+  E,
   errnoException,
   exceptionWithHostPort,
+  fatalExceptionStackEnhancers,
+  genericNodeError,
   getMessage,
-  hideStackFrames,
   hideInternalStackFrames,
+  hideStackFrames,
   isErrorStackTraceLimitWritable,
   isStackOverflowError,
+  kEnhanceStackBeforeInspector,
+  kIsNodeError,
+  kNoOverride,
+  maybeOverridePrepareStackTrace,
+  overrideStackTrace,
+  prepareStackTrace,
   setArrowMessage,
-  connResetException,
+  SystemError,
   uvErrmapGet,
   uvException,
   uvExceptionWithHostPort,
-  SystemError,
-  AbortError,
-  // This is exported only to facilitate testing.
-  E,
-  kNoOverride,
-  prepareStackTrace,
-  maybeOverridePrepareStackTrace,
-  overrideStackTrace,
-  kEnhanceStackBeforeInspector,
-  fatalExceptionStackEnhancers,
-  kIsNodeError,
-  captureLargerStackTrace,
 };
 
 // To declare an error message, use the E(sym, val, def) function above. The sym
diff --git a/lib/net.js b/lib/net.js
index 9681616df62799..c5d46988c4dde3 100644
--- a/lib/net.js
+++ b/lib/net.js
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ const {
   ArrayIsArray,
   ArrayPrototypeIndexOf,
   Boolean,
-  Error,
   Number,
   NumberIsNaN,
   NumberParseInt,
@@ -97,7 +96,8 @@ const {
   },
   errnoException,
   exceptionWithHostPort,
-  uvExceptionWithHostPort
+  genericNodeError,
+  uvExceptionWithHostPort,
 } = require('internal/errors');
 const { isUint8Array } = require('internal/util/types');
 const {
@@ -484,9 +484,10 @@ function writeAfterFIN(chunk, encoding, cb) {
     encoding = null;
   }
 
-  // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax
-  const er = new Error('This socket has been ended by the other party');
-  er.code = 'EPIPE';
+  const er = genericNodeError(
+    'This socket has been ended by the other party',
+    { code: 'EPIPE' }
+  );
   if (typeof cb === 'function') {
     defaultTriggerAsyncIdScope(this[async_id_symbol], process.nextTick, cb, er);
   }
diff --git a/lib/zlib.js b/lib/zlib.js
index 35e16534fb3d52..718f72af67650e 100644
--- a/lib/zlib.js
+++ b/lib/zlib.js
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ const {
   ArrayPrototypeForEach,
   ArrayPrototypeMap,
   ArrayPrototypePush,
-  Error,
   FunctionPrototypeBind,
   MathMaxApply,
   NumberIsFinite,
@@ -51,7 +50,8 @@ const {
     ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE,
     ERR_ZLIB_INITIALIZATION_FAILED,
   },
-  hideStackFrames
+  genericNodeError,
+  hideStackFrames,
 } = require('internal/errors');
 const { Transform, finished } = require('stream');
 const {
@@ -186,8 +186,7 @@ function zlibOnError(message, errno, code) {
   // There is no way to cleanly recover.
   // Continuing only obscures problems.
 
-  // eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-syntax
-  const error = new Error(message);
+  const error = genericNodeError(message, { errno, code });
   error.errno = errno;
   error.code = code;
   self.destroy(error);
diff --git a/test/sequential/test-child-process-execsync.js b/test/sequential/test-child-process-execsync.js
index bc589efb8b5b64..5512eaeed7af35 100644
--- a/test/sequential/test-child-process-execsync.js
+++ b/test/sequential/test-child-process-execsync.js
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ try {
   assert.ok(caught, 'execSync should throw');
   const end = Date.now() - start;
   assert(end < SLEEP);
-  assert(err.status > 128 || err.signal);
+  assert(err.status > 128 || err.signal, `status: ${err.status}, signal: ${err.signal}`);
 }
 
 assert.throws(function() {