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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 02:56:55 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: kseifried@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE for node.js websockets (ws)
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> https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/67
We currently feel that a CVE ID should not exist (unless an affected
application is identified) because any related instances of
security-relevant behavior would be site-specific, and therefore
outside the scope of CVE.
For example:
https://gist.github.com/c0nrad/e92005446c480707a74a#gistcomment-1664152
https://nodejs.org/api/dgram.html#dgram_socket_send_buf_offset_length_port_address_callback
suggests that the problem is that Node.js allows people to write
incorrect server-side code in which there is a call to socket.send,
socket.ping, or socket.pong with a numerical argument. However, the
documentation states that the argument must be a Buffer object or
string. Behavior in the case of a numerical argument seems to be
undefined. The change seems to be a hardening measure in which
numerical arguments are automatically converted to strings, thereby
making it safer to execute a specific type of incorrect code.
If incorrect server-side code actually exists in a product, then a CVE
ID can be assigned.
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CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
[ PGP key available through http://cve.mitre.org/cve/request_id.html ]
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