CVE-2016-10519: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

September 1, 2020 (updated January 7, 2021)

A security issue was found in bittorrent-dht before 5.1.3 that allows someone to send a specific series of messages to a listening peer and get it to reveal internal memory.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-77g4-36jp-5v3m
github.com/feross/bittorrent-dht/issues/87
nodesecurity.io/advisories/68
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10519
www.npmjs.com/advisories/68

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