Improper Initialization Affecting rh-nodejs8-nodejs-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RHNODEJS8NODEJSDEVEL-4568909
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed7 Dec 2017

Introduced: 7 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-15897  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-665  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 rh-nodejs8-nodejs-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rh-nodejs8-nodejs-devel package and not the rh-nodejs8-nodejs-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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

version 3.1