Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-15897

low Nessus Plugin ID 221048

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- Node.js had a bug in versions 8.X and 9.X which caused buffers to not be initialized when the encoding for the fill value did not match the encoding specified. For example, 'Buffer.alloc(0x100, This is not correctly encoded, hex);' The buffer implementation was updated such that the buffer will be initialized to all zeros in these cases. (CVE-2017-15897)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 221048

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2017_15897.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 5/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-15897

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.1

Temporal Score: 2.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-packaging-bundler, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nodejs-full-i18n, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:v8-13.6-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:npm, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:v8-12.4-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:v8-13.6-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nodejs-packaging-bundler, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:v8-12.4-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nodejs-packaging, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nodejs-nodemon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:npm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nodejs-docs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nodejs-libs

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/8/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-15897

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