vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15897: Improper Initialization

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Dec 11, 2017
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 22, 2025

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.

Solutions

alpine-linux-upgrade-nodejsalpine-linux-upgrade-nodejs-current
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