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Node.js had a bug in versions 8.X and 9.X which caused...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 11, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.054%
(23rd percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2017-15897

GHSA ID

GHSA-f2j2-5fh3-4jrr

Source code

No known source code

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