UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12115

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12115

    Published: 21 Aug 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-12115
    Aliases:
    USN-4796-1

    Summary:

    Details: In all versions of Node.js prior to 6.14.4, 8.11.4 and 10.9.0 when used with UCS-2 encoding (recognized by Node.js under the names `'ucs2'`, `'ucs-2'`, `'utf16le'` and `'utf-16le'`), `Buffer#write()` can be abused to write outside of the bounds of a single `Buffer`. Writes that start from the second-to-last position of a buffer cause a miscalculation of the maximum length of the input bytes to be written.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12115, https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/august-2018-security-releases/, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4796-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12115

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nodejs

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~dfsg2-2ubuntu1.2+esm2?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.10.15~dfsg1-4
    0.10.21~dfsg1-1
    0.10.22~dfsg1-2
    0.10.23~dfsg1-1
    0.10.23~dfsg1-2
    0.10.23~dfsg1-3
    0.10.24~dfsg1-1
    0.10.25~dfsg2-2
    0.10.25~dfsg2-2ubuntu1
    0.10.25~dfsg2-2ubuntu1.2
    0.10.25~dfsg2-2ubuntu1.2+esm1
    0.10.25~dfsg2-2ubuntu1.2+esm2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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