Description
A buffer over-read vulnerability exists in bl <4.0.3, <3.0.1, <2.2.1, and <1.2.3 which could allow an attacker to supply user input (even typed) that if it ends up in consume() argument and can become negative, the BufferList state can be corrupted, tricking it into exposing uninitialized memory via regular .slice() calls.
Remediation
References
https://hackerone.com/reports/966347
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/06/msg00028.html
Related Vulnerabilities
CVE-2020-26256 Vulnerability in maven package org.webjars.npm:fast-csv
CVE-2023-48711 Vulnerability in npm package google-translate-api-browser
CVE-2023-46122 Vulnerability in maven package org.scala-sbt:io_2.12
CVE-2018-3724 Vulnerability in npm package general-file-server
CVE-2021-21292 Vulnerability in maven package org.traccar:traccar