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CVE-2018-1000518
Published: Jun 26, 2018
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
aaugustin websockets version 4 contains a CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in Servers and clients, unless configured with compression=None that can result in Denial of Service by memory exhaustion. This attack appear to be exploitable via Sending a specially crafted frame on an established connection. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/pull/407
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