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CVE-2024-29900 Electron Packager bundles Electron-based application source code with a renamed Electron executable and supporting files…

Description

Electron Packager bundles Electron-based application source code with a renamed Electron executable and supporting files into folders ready for distribution. A random segment of ~1-10kb of Node.js heap memory allocated either side of a known buffer will be leaked into the final executable. This memory _could_ contain sensitive information such as environment variables, secrets files, etc. This issue is patched in 18.3.1.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
packager 18.3.0 No fix stated
electron-packager 18.3 18.3.0 → < 18.3.1 18.3.1

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