GMS-2017-197: Regular Expression Denial of Service

September 8, 2017

charset is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Input of around k characters is required for a slow down of around 2 seconds. Unless node was compiled using the -DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE= option the default header max length is kb so the impact of the ReDoS is relatively low.

References

github.com/node-modules/charset/issues/10

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