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GHSA-F2J2-5FH3-4JRR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-14 04:01 – Updated: 2025-04-20 03:49

Details

Node.js had a bug in versions 8.X and 9.X which caused buffers to not be initialized when the encoding for the fill value did not match the encoding specified. For example, 'Buffer.alloc(0x100, "This is not correctly encoded", "hex");' The buffer implementation was updated such that the buffer will be initialized to all zeros in these cases.

Severity

3.1 (Low)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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CVE-2017-15897 (GCVE-0-2017-15897)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-11 21:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 03:42

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Un-initialized Data

Assigner

nodejs CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard – unranked: 0 records in the last 180 days, 10 needed details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
The Node.js Project	Node.js	Affected: 8.0 and higher Affected: 9.0 and higher

Date Public

2017-12-07 00:00

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