oss-security - nodejs Buffer(number) is unsafe #4660

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Message-ID: <CANO=Ty11oyui5QSb_O5-86ajFxn-3uqhDiaLke8arTLRXvSM6Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 09:28:09 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>, CVE ID Requests <cve-assign@...re.org>
Subject: nodejs Buffer(number) is unsafe #4660

From:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4660

tl;dr

This issue proposes:

Change new Buffer(number) to return safe, zeroed-out memory

Create a new API for creating uninitialized Buffers, Buffer.alloc(number)

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it then goes into more detail at the URL. Can a CVE be assigned for this
please?

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