GMS-2016-38: DoS due to excessively large websocket message

June 24, 2016

It is possible to crash the node process by sending an overly long websocket payload to a ws server.

References

github.com/nodejs/node/issues/7388
github.com/websockets/ws/commit/0328a8f49f004f98d2913016214e93b2fc2713bc

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