| Name | CVE-2015-8855 |
| Description | The semver package before 4.3.2 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long version string, 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-semver (PTS) | jessie | 2.1.0-2 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 5.3.0-1 | fixed |
| buster | 5.5.1-1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 7.3.4-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 7.3.5+~7.3.9-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 7.6.1+~7.5.8-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| node-semver | source | (unstable) | 5.3.0-1 | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/semver_redos
https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.7.5
libv8 is not covered by security support