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CVE-2018-7166

Published: 8/21/2018 Last updated: 9/17/2024 Reserved: 2/15/2018

In all versions of Node.js 10 prior to 10.9.0, an argument processing flaw can cause `Buffer.alloc()` to return uninitialized memory. This method is intended to be safe and only return initialized, or cleared, memory. The third argument specifying `encoding` can be passed as a number, this is misinterpreted by `Buffer's` internal "fill" method as the `start` to a fill operation. This flaw may be abused where `Buffer.alloc()` arguments are derived from user input to return uncleared memory blocks that may contain sensitive information.

CNA assigner: nodejs (386269d4-a6c6-4eaa-bf8e-bc0b0d010558) Requested by: n/a

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Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
Node.js The Node.js Project 12.5(1)SU

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