Denial of Service Vulnerability in Ecstatic Node Module via If-Modified-Since Header

CVE-2015-9242 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Certain input strings when passed to new Date() or Date.parse() in ecstatic node module before 1.4.0 will cause v8 to raise an exception. This leads to a crash and denial of service in ecstatic when this input is passed into the server via the If-Modified-Since header.

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