Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in fast-string-search
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Jun 18, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 27, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jun 17, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jun 18, 2022
Reviewed
Jun 20, 2022
Last updated
Jan 27, 2023
All versions of package fast-string-search are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when computations are incorrect for non-string inputs. One can cause the V8 to attempt reading from non-permitted locations and cause a segmentation fault due to the violation.
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