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High · 7.5 CVE-2021-39157 EUVD-2021-1781GHSA-jqfh-8hw5-fqjr

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in detect-character-encoding

Published Aug 24, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

detect-character-encoding is an open source character encoding inspection library. In detect-character-encoding v0.6.0 and earlier, data matching no charset causes the Node.js process to crash. The problem has been patched in [detect-character-encoding v0.7.0](https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/releases/tag/v0.7.0). No workaround are available and all users should update to resolve this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
sonicdoe detect-character-encoding < 0.7.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm detect-character-encoding < 0.7.0 0.7.0 GHSA-jqfh-8hw5-fqjr

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