CVE-2016-10542

Publication date

2018-05-31 20:00:00

Family

hackerone

State

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.