| Name | CVE-2015-8854 |
| Description | 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)." |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| node-marked (PTS) | jessie | 0.3.2+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 0.3.6+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| buster | 0.5.1+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 0.8.0+ds+repack-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 4.2.3+ds+~4.0.7-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 4.2.3+ds+~4.0.7-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| node-marked | source | (unstable) | 0.3.6+dfsg-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/marked_redos
https://github.com/chjj/marked/issues/497
libv8 is not covered by security support