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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: nodejs

Published: 2017-12-11T21:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:42:59.193Z

Reserved: 2017-10-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-15897

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-12-11T21:29:00.563

Modified: 2022-09-01T16:22:28.230

Link: CVE-2017-15897

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-12-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-15897 - Bugzilla