| Revision Date: | 2018-08-21 | Version: | 1 | | Title: | CVE-2018-7166 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - low. | | Description: | 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 `Buffer's` 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.
| | Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability | | Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2018-7166
| | Platform(s): | Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
| Product(s): | | | Definition Synopsis | | Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) is installed. AND NOT nodejs package in bionic, while related to the CVE in some way, is not affected (note: 'code not present').
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