nodejs Buffer(number) is unsafe #4660

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

From:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/4660

tl;dr

This issue proposes:

Change new Buffer(number) to return safe, zeroed-out memory

Create a new API for creating uninitialized Buffers, Buffer.alloc(number)

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it then goes into more detail at the URL. Can a CVE be assigned for this
please?

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