High
Security advisory
Node.js before 4.8.5, 6.x before 6.11.5, and 8.x before 8.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncaught exception and crash) by leveraging a change in the zlib module 1.2.9 making 8 an invalid value for the windowBits parameter.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-14919
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Node.js before 4.8.5, 6.x before 6.11.5, and 8.x before 8.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncaught exception and crash) by leveraging a change in the zlib module 1.2.9 making 8 an invalid value for the windowBits parameter.
osv:CVE-2017-14919
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:25.607459653Z",
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"references": [
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"https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.8.5/",
"https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v6.11.5/",
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