Bug 1351230 (CVE-2016-1000025) - CVE-2016-1000025 nodejs-ws: DoS due to excessively large websocket message
Summary: CVE-2016-1000025 nodejs-ws: DoS due to excessively large websocket message
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-1000025
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1351231 1351232 1351233
Blocks: 1351235
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-06-29 14:04 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:38 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: nodejs-ws 1.1.1
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Last Closed: 2016-06-29 18:24:01 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-06-29 14:04:31 UTC 
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.

External references:

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/120

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7388
Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-06-29 14:05:15 UTC 
Created nodejs-ws tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1351231]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1351232]
Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2016-06-29 18:24:25 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects the versions of nodejs-ws as shipped with Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-07-09 23:52:41 UTC 
nodejs-ws-1.1.1-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-07-10 05:56:48 UTC 
nodejs-ws-1.1.1-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 Andrej Nemec 2016-07-13 08:04:16 UTC 
CVE assignment:

https://github.com/distributedweaknessfiling/DWF-Database/commit/5e607a0cad2769db2be5aafc4d9b1ec49bd7bbbc
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2016-07-17 15:46:21 UTC 
nodejs-ws-1.1.1-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2016-07-18 18:49:26 UTC 
nodejs-ws-1.1.1-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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