http: use Buffer.from to avoid Buffer(num) call

This fixes a potential Buffer(num) call when the user passes a number
as the 'auth' property.

This now throws instead of allocating an unitialized memory Buffer and
sending that in the Authorization header.

Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/security/issues/111

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node-private/pull/83
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>

Author: ChALkeR

lib/_http_client.js

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ function ClientRequest(options, cb) {
   if (options.auth && !this.getHeader('Authorization')) {
     //basic auth
     this.setHeader('Authorization', 'Basic ' +
-                   new Buffer(options.auth).toString('base64'));
+                   Buffer.from(options.auth).toString('base64'));
   }
 
   if (method === 'GET' ||

test/parallel/test-http-auth-number.js

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+'use strict';
+
+require('../common');
+const http = require('http');
+const url = require('url');
+const assert = require('assert');
+
+const opts = url.parse('http://127.0.0.1:8180');
+opts.auth = 100;
+
+assert.throws(() => {
+  http.get(opts);
+}, /^TypeError: "value" argument must not be a number$/);