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CVE-2017-15897

Publication date 11 December 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

3.1 · Low

Score breakdown

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
nodejs 18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected

Notes


msalvatore

affects 8.X and 9.X versions. Fixed in v8.9.3.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 3.1 · Low
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N