CVE-2018-7166

Name	CVE-2018-7166
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, 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)	jessie	0.10.29~dfsg-2	fixed
	stretch	4.8.2~dfsg-1	fixed
	buster (security), buster, buster (lts)	10.24.0~dfsg-1~deb10u4	fixed
	bullseye	12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u4	fixed
	bullseye (security)	12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u5	fixed
	bookworm	18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u2	fixed
	bookworm (security)	18.19.0+dfsg-6~deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	20.17.0+dfsg-2	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)

Notes

- nodejs <not-affected> (Only affects 10.x and later)
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/august-2018-security-releases/
https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/40a7beeddac9b9ec9ef5b49157daaf8470648b08