CVE-2015-8854

Impact

The marked package before 0.3.4 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via unspecified vectors that trigger a "catastrophic backtracking issue for the em inline rule," aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO2RMVVZVV6NFTU46B5RYRK7ZCXYARZS/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M6BJG6RGDH7ZWVVAUFBFI5L32RSMQN2S/
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/23
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K05052081?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO2RMVVZVV6NFTU46B5RYRK7ZCXYARZS/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M6BJG6RGDH7ZWVVAUFBFI5L32RSMQN2S/
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/23
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K05052081?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS