From bc9740d50a38e9660f2f98ed91d84c6d8799cf70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenny Moens <kmoens@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2022 15:38:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] javascript cataloger: node binary: nil pointer dereference
 (#1313)

Co-authored-by: Keith Zantow <kzantow@gmail.com>
---
 syft/pkg/cataloger/javascript/parse_node_binary.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/javascript/parse_node_binary.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/javascript/parse_node_binary.go
index e7933fcbd3f..51ec307c016 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/javascript/parse_node_binary.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/javascript/parse_node_binary.go
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ func parseNodeBinary(_ source.FileResolver, _ *generic.Environment, reader sourc
 	// TODO add node specific metadata to the packages to help with vulnerability matching
 	if p != nil {
 		p.Language = pkg.JavaScript
+		p.SetID()
 		return []pkg.Package{*p}, nil, nil
 	}
-	p.SetID()
 	return nil, nil, nil
 }