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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-10542

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The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. ws is a simple to use, blazing fast and thoroughly tested websocket client, server and console for node.js, up-to-date against RFC-6455. By sending an overly long websocket payload to a ws server, it is possible to crash the node process. This affects ws 1.1.0 and earlier. (CVE-2016-10542) Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor. File data…Read More

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