buffer: stop alloc() uninitialized memory return

CVE-2018-7166
Discovered by ChALkeR - Сковорода Никита Андреевич

Prevent Buffer.alloc(size, fill, number) from returning uninitialized memory.

Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs-private/security/issues/202
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs-private/node-private/pull/137
Reviewed-By: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
Reviewed-By: Evan Lucas <evanlucas@me.com>
Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
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cjihrig 2018-08-09 21:45:40 -04:00 committed by Rod Vagg
parent 16accff90f
commit 40a7beedda
2 changed files with 9 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -278,7 +278,8 @@ function assertSize(size) {
Buffer.alloc = function alloc(size, fill, encoding) {
assertSize(size);
if (fill !== undefined && fill !== 0 && size > 0) {
return _fill(createUnsafeBuffer(size), fill, encoding);
const buf = createUnsafeBuffer(size);
return _fill(buf, fill, 0, buf.length, encoding);
}
return new FastBuffer(size);
};

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@ -1039,3 +1039,10 @@ common.expectsError(() => {
code: 'ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE',
type: TypeError
});
common.expectsError(() => {
Buffer.alloc(40, 'x', 20);
}, {
code: 'ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE',
type: TypeError
});