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CVE-2016-10542

Published: May 31, 2018

Modified: Sep 17, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

ws is a "simple to use, blazing fast and thoroughly tested websocket client, server and console for node.js, up-to-date against RFC-6455". By sending an overly long websocket payload to a `ws` server, it is possible to crash the node process. This affects ws 1.1.0 and earlier.

Vendor	Product	Versions
HackerOne	ws node module	affected `<=1.1.0`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7388

x_refsource_MISC

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/120

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