CVE-2017-15897

Name	CVE-2017-15897
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
nodejs (PTS)	buster	10.24.0~dfsg-1~deb10u1	fixed
	buster (security)	10.24.0~dfsg-1~deb10u3	fixed
	bullseye	12.22.5~dfsg-2~11u1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u3	fixed
	bookworm, sid	18.13.0+dfsg1-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
nodejs	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- nodejs <not-affected> (Only affects 8.x and 9.x)