In all versions of Node.js 10 prior to 10.9.0, an argument processing flaw can cause Buffer.alloc()
to return uninitialized memory. This method is intended to be safe and only return initialized, or cleared, memory. The third argument specifying encoding
can be passed as a number, this is misinterpreted by Buffers
internal fill method as the start
to a fill operation. This flaw may be abused where Buffer.alloc()
arguments are derived from user input to return uncleared memory blocks that may contain sensitive information.
The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized.
Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
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Node.js | Nodejs | 10.0.0 (including) | 10.9.0 (excluding) |