DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16129

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DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16129

Summary:

Details: The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks. In a ZIP bomb attack, the HTTP server replies with a compressed response that becomes several magnitudes larger once uncompressed. If a client does not take special care when processing such responses, it may result in excessive CPU and/or memory consumption. An attacker might exploit such a weakness for a DoS attack. To exploit this the attacker must control the location (URL) that superagent makes a request to.

References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16129