vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2018-1000518: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 26, 2018
Added
Aug 9, 2024
Modified
Aug 9, 2024

Description

aaugustin websockets version 4 contains a CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in Servers and clients, unless configured with compression=None that can result in Denial of Service by memory exhaustion. This attack appear to be exploitable via Sending a specially crafted frame on an established connection. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 5.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-python3-websocket-clientsuse-upgrade-python3-websockets
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