visionmedia/node-querystring · Security
Denial-of-Service Memory Exhaustion in qs
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-jjv7-qpx3-h62q
- CVE ID
- CVE-2014-7191
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
Description
Versions prior to 1.0 of qs are affected by a denial of service condition. This condition is triggered by parsing a crafted string that deserializes into very large sparse arrays, resulting in the process running out of memory and eventually crashing.
Recommendation
Update to version 1.0.0 or later.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7191 ↗
- https://github.com/visionmedia/node-querystring/issues/104 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jjv7-qpx3-h62q ↗
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/29 ↗
- https://github.com/raymondfeng/node-querystring/commit/43a604b7847e56bba49d0ce3e222fe89569354d8 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1380 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96729 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60026 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62170 ↗
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21685987 ↗
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687263 ↗
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687928 ↗