diff --git a/common.gypi b/common.gypi
index 98d34bed5d4657..387ef8bc491e00 100644
--- a/common.gypi
+++ b/common.gypi
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
     # Reset this number to 0 on major V8 upgrades.
     # Increment by one for each non-official patch applied to deps/v8.
-    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.35',
+    'v8_embedder_string': '-node.36',
 
     ##### V8 defaults for Node.js #####
 
diff --git a/deps/v8/test/cctest/parsing/test-scanner-streams.cc b/deps/v8/test/cctest/parsing/test-scanner-streams.cc
index 35b7048bb01e3b..28687cef5b4b25 100644
--- a/deps/v8/test/cctest/parsing/test-scanner-streams.cc
+++ b/deps/v8/test/cctest/parsing/test-scanner-streams.cc
@@ -331,8 +331,8 @@ TEST(Utf8AdvanceUntilOverChunkBoundaries) {
   for (size_t i = 1; i < len; i++) {
     // Copy source string into buffer, splitting it at i.
     // Then add three chunks, 0..i-1, i..strlen-1, empty.
-    strncpy(buffer, unicode_utf8, i);
-    strncpy(buffer + i + 1, unicode_utf8 + i, len - i);
+    memcpy(buffer, unicode_utf8, i);
+    memcpy(buffer + i + 1, unicode_utf8 + i, len - i);
     buffer[i] = '\0';
     buffer[len + 1] = '\n';
     buffer[len + 2] = '\0';
@@ -360,8 +360,8 @@ TEST(Utf8ChunkBoundaries) {
   for (size_t i = 1; i < len; i++) {
     // Copy source string into buffer, splitting it at i.
     // Then add three chunks, 0..i-1, i..strlen-1, empty.
-    strncpy(buffer, unicode_utf8, i);
-    strncpy(buffer + i + 1, unicode_utf8 + i, len - i);
+    memcpy(buffer, unicode_utf8, i);
+    memcpy(buffer + i + 1, unicode_utf8 + i, len - i);
     buffer[i] = '\0';
     buffer[len + 1] = '\0';
     buffer[len + 2] = '\0';