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Security checkNovember 29, 2023

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in trim-newlines

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Description

@rkesters/gnuplot is an easy to use node module to draw charts using gnuplot and ps2pdf. The trim-newlines package before 3.0.1 and 4.x before 4.0.1 for Node.js has an issue related to regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) for the .end() method.

Recommendation

Update the trim-newlines package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): **= 4.0.0 < 3.0.1**
  • Patched version(s): **4.0.1 3.0.1**

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