Low severity3.1NVD Advisory· Published Dec 11, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

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.

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Node.js/Node.js3 versions
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*range: >=8.0.0,<=8.8.1
- cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*range: >=8.9.0,<8.9.3
- (no CPE)range: 8.x, 9.x
osv-coords13 versions
pkg:rpm/suse/firefox-atk&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/firefox-cairo&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/firefox-gdk-pixbuf&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/firefox-glib2&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/firefox-gtk3&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/firefox-harfbuzz&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/firefox-libffi&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/firefox-libffi-gcc5&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/firefox-pango&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox-branding-SLED&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/MozillaFirefox&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/mozilla-nspr&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS pkg:rpm/suse/mozilla-nss&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4-LTSS
< 2.26.1-2.8.4+ 12 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.26.1-2.8.4
- (no CPE)range: < 1.15.10-2.13.4
- (no CPE)range: < 2.36.11-2.8.4
- (no CPE)range: < 2.54.3-2.14.7
- (no CPE)range: < 3.10.9-2.15.3
- (no CPE)range: < 1.7.5-2.7.4
- (no CPE)range: < 3.2.1.git259-2.3.3
- (no CPE)range: < 5.3.1+r233831-14.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.40.14-2.7.4
- (no CPE)range: < 68-21.9.8
- (no CPE)range: < 68.2.0-78.51.4
- (no CPE)range: < 4.21-29.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.45-38.9.3
The Node.js Project/Node.jsv5
Range: 8.0 and higher

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References

nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2017-security-releases/nvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

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