What is GHSA-xm7f-x4wx-wmgv?

GHSA-xm7f-x4wx-wmgv is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Out-of-bounds Read in byte

Why does GHSA-xm7f-x4wx-wmgv have no CVE ID yet?

GitHub Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

Which products are affected by GHSA-xm7f-x4wx-wmgv?

GHSA-xm7f-x4wx-wmgv affects 1 product, including: npm/byte:\u003c 1.4.1.

GHSA-xm7f-x4wx-wmgvMediumDisclosed before NVD

Out-of-bounds Read in byte

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

June 4, 2019

Last Modified

January 9, 2023

📋 Description

Versions of byte before 1.4.1 allocate uninitialized buffers and read data from them past the initialized length

Recommendation

Update to version 1.4.1 or later.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/byte:< 1.4.1

🔗 References (4)

https://github.com/node-modules/byte/pull/3
https://hackerone.com/reports/330351
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/657
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xm7f-x4wx-wmgv