CVE-2015-9242: Improper Input Validation

June 7, 2018 (updated January 8, 2021)

Certain input strings when passed to new Date() or Date.parse() in ecstatic node module before 1.4.0 will cause v8 to raise an exception. This leads to a crash and denial of service in ecstatic when this input is passed into the server via the If-Modified-Since header.

References

bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4640
github.com/advisories/GHSA-vwjc-q9px-r9vq
github.com/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic/pull/179
nodesecurity.io/advisories/64
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-9242
www.npmjs.com/advisories/64

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