CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedThe websocket-driver library, prior to version 0.8.1, is vulnerable to a memory exhaustion issue due to the handling of draft WebSocket protocol versions, allowing for the encoding of excessively large integers. This vulnerability can lead to unbounded memory consumption, potentially causing the host process to run out of memory and crash. Developers and organizations using websocket-driver should prioritize upgrading to version 0.8.1 to mitigate this risk.
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Original NVD Description
websocket-driver is a WebSocket protocol handler with pluggable I/O. Prior to 0.8.1, draft versions of the WebSocket protocol in websocket-driver include a length header that allows an arbitrarily large integer to be encoded as bytes with the high bit set, and a server or client can send an indefinite sequence of 0x80 or higher bytes that the peer parses into an ever-growing Ruby integer. This can make a WebSocket connection consume an unbounded amount of memory and lead to the host process running out of memory. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.1.
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