A AegiFlow
LOWCVSS 3.1

CVE-2017-15897

CVE-2017-15897 updated by NVD

Modified
2026-09-20
Sources
nvd

Summary

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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffected versionsFixed versions
Node.jsnode.js[object Object], [object Object], [object Object]

References

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