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CVE-2017-15897

UNKNOWN
Published 2017-12-11T21:00:00Z
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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.

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Affected Products

The Node.js Project

Node.js

Affected Versions:

8.0 and higher 9.0 and higher

GitHub Security Advisories

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GHSA-f2j2-5fh3-4jrr

Advisory 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.

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

5.0

CVSS Vector

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

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15897
WEB https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2017-security-releases

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: May 14, 2022, Modified: April 20, 2025

References

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2017-security-releases/
Published: 2017-12-11T21:00:00Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-17T03:42:59.193Z
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