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Ubuntu: USN-4796-1 (CVE-2018-12115): Node.js vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4796-1 (CVE-2018-12115): Node.js vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/21/2018
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

In all versions of Node.js prior to 6.14.4, 8.11.4 and 10.9.0 when used with UCS-2 encoding (recognized by Node.js under the names `'ucs2'`, `'ucs-2'`, `'utf16le'` and `'utf-16le'`), `Buffer#write()` can be abused to write outside of the bounds of a single `Buffer`. Writes that start from the second-to-last position of a buffer cause a miscalculation of the maximum length of the input bytes to be written.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-nodejs
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-nodejs-dev
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-nodejs-doc

References

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