Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in ws 1.1.0 and earlier

CVE-2016-10542 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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.

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