Security Bulletin: IBM Documentation Offline is vulnerable to `Node.js ReadFileUtf8 and HTTP Parser flaws` due to Node.js (CVE-2025-23165, CVE-2025-23167)

Summary IBM Documentation Offline utilizes Node.js as a third-party component, which contains two vulnerabilities that could potentially affect your product's stability and security. CVE-2025-23165 CVSS: 3.7 is a Denial of Service DoS vulnerability in the ReadFileUtf8 internal binding. Repeated u...

BIT-NODE-MIN-2025-23165

In Node.js, the ReadFileUtf8 internal binding leaks memory due to a corrupted pointer in uvfss.file: a UTF-16 path buffer is allocated but subsequently overwritten when the file descriptor is set. This results in an unrecoverable memory leak on every call. Repeated use can cause unbounded memory...

CVE-2025-23165

In Node.js, the ReadFileUtf8 internal binding leaks memory due to a corrupted pointer in uvfss.file: a UTF-16 path buffer is allocated but subsequently overwritten when the file descriptor is set. This results in an unrecoverable memory leak on every call. Repeated use can cause unbounded memory...

CVE-2025-23165

In Node.js, the ReadFileUtf8 internal binding leaks memory due to a corrupted pointer in uvfss.file: a UTF-16 path buffer is allocated but subsequently overwritten when the file descriptor is set. This results in an unrecoverable memory leak on every call. Repeated use can cause unbounded memory...

Node.js: Corrupted pointer in node::fs::ReadFileUtf8(const FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) when args[0] is a string.

In Node.js, the ReadFileUtf8 internal binding was found to have a memory leak due to a corrupted pointer in uvfss.file. A UTF-16 path buffer was allocated and subsequently overwritten when the file descriptor was set, leading to an unrecoverable memory leak on every call...