Description
websocket-driver is a WebSocket protocol handler with pluggable I/O. Prior to 0.8.1, draft versions of the WebSocket protocol in websocket-driver include a length header that allows an arbitrarily large integer to be encoded as bytes with the high bit set, and a server or client can send an indefinite sequence of 0x80 or higher bytes that the peer parses into an ever-growing Ruby integer. This can make a WebSocket connection consume an unbounded amount of memory and lead to the host process running out of memory. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.1.
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-ghhp-3qvg-889p | websocket-driver: Memory exhaustion via abuse of protocol length headers |
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History
Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:15:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| Description | websocket-driver is a WebSocket protocol handler with pluggable I/O. Prior to 0.8.1, draft versions of the WebSocket protocol in websocket-driver include a length header that allows an arbitrarily large integer to be encoded as bytes with the high bit set, and a server or client can send an indefinite sequence of 0x80 or higher bytes that the peer parses into an ever-growing Ruby integer. This can make a WebSocket connection consume an unbounded amount of memory and lead to the host process running out of memory. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.1. | |
| Title | websocket-driver: Memory exhaustion via abuse of protocol length headers | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-17T20:05:17.888Z
Reserved: 2026-06-15T15:30:40.319Z
Link: CVE-2026-54463
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Weaknesses
Github GHSA