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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
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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.
Severity
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Un-initialized Data
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Node.js Project Node.js Affected: 8.0 and higher
Affected: 9.0 and higher
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Date Public
2017-12-07 00:00
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