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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15897: Improper Initialization

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-15897: Improper Initialization

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/11/2017
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/10/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-nodejs
  • alpine-linux-upgrade-nodejs-current

References

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