Bug 1584889 (CVE-2018-3745) - CVE-2018-3745 atob: uninitialized memory allocation in input
Summary: CVE-2018-3745 atob: uninitialized memory allocation in input
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2018-3745
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1584890
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-05-31 21:15 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2023-10-06 17:48 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:27:10 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-05-31 21:15:11 UTC 
atob 2.0.3 and earlier allocates uninitialized Buffers when number is passed in input on Node.js 4.x and below.


References:
https://hackerone.com/reports/321686
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-05-31 21:15:31 UTC 
Created nodejs-atob tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-28 [bug 1584890]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:27:10 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2020-03-10 21:56:26 UTC 
The linked hackerone report indicates that the issue was fixed in atob version 2.1.0, without pointing out any specific fix.
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