| Name | CVE-2020-36049 |
| Description | socket.io-parser before 3.4.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large packet because a concatenation approach is used. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| node-socket.io-parser (PTS) | buster | 3.3.0-1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 4.0.2-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4.2.1+~3.1.0-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.2.1+~3.1.0-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - node-socket.io-parser <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://blog.caller.xyz/socketio-engineio-dos/
https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-parser/commit/dcb942d24db97162ad16a67c2a0cf30875342d55