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: nodejs-private/security#202 PR-URL: nodejs-private/node-private#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>
nodejs · Aug 15, 2018 · 734323d9eb4debf64034ce8320121e2318f572a9 · 734323d
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commit 734323d9eb4debf64034ce8320121e2318f572a9
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+2 −1 lib/buffer.js

+7 −0 test/parallel/test-buffer-alloc.js
diff --git a/lib/buffer.js b/lib/buffer.js
@@ -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);
 };

diff --git a/test/parallel/test-buffer-alloc.js b/test/parallel/test-buffer-alloc.js
@@ -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
+});