CVE-2017-15897
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-12-11 21:00
Modified
2024-09-17 03:42
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve-request@iojs.orghttps://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2017-security-releases/Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2017-security-releases/Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
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The Node.js Project Node.js Version: 8.0 and higher
Version: 9.0 and higher
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