Information Exposure Affecting nodejs package, versions <8.9.3-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE320-NODEJS-7010478
  • published23 May 2024
  • disclosed11 Dec 2017

Introduced: 11 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-15897  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.20 nodejs to version 8.9.3-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs package and not the nodejs package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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