Bug 1146045

Summary:	nodejs-qs: Denial-of-Service Memory Exhaustion
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description T.C. Hollingsworth 2014-09-24 11:09:29 UTC

Dustin Shiver of the Node Security Project reports:

The qs module has the ability to create sparse arrays during parsing. By specifying a high index it is possible to create a large array that will eventually take up all the allocated memory of the running process, resulting in a crash.

Source: https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/qs_dos_memory_exhaustion
Upstream bug: https://github.com/visionmedia/node-querystring/issues/104

CVE request: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/24/1

Comment 1 T.C. Hollingsworth 2014-09-24 11:32:20 UTC

Jinx. :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1146054 ***

Comment 2 Wade Mealing 2016-06-09 00:38:00 UTC

Nice report though.