Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package node-bl (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2010-NODEBL-1029320
- published1 Nov 2020
- disclosed30 Aug 2020
Introduced: 30 Aug 2020
CVE-2020-8244 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream node-bl package and not the node-bl package as distributed by Ubuntu.
A buffer over-read vulnerability exists in bl <4.0.3, <3.0.1, <2.2.1, and <1.2.3 which could allow an attacker to supply user input (even typed) that if it ends up in consume() argument and can become negative, the BufferList state can be corrupted, tricking it into exposing uninitialized memory via regular .slice() calls.