CVE-2021-39157: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

August 24, 2021 (updated September 1, 2021)

detect-character-encoding is an open source character encoding inspection library. In detect-character-encoding, data matching no charset causes the Node.js process to crash. No workaround are available and all users should update to resolve this issue.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39157

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