UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10542
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Summary:
Details: 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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10542, https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7388, https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/120, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10542
Affected packages
Package
Name: node-ws
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+ds1.e6ddaae4-1?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
0.7.2+ds1.349b7460-1
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
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High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
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High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
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High
