UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8855

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)."

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / node-semver

Package

Name: node-semver
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-semver@2.1.0-2ubuntu0.0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.1.0-2ubuntu0.0.1~esm1

Affected versions

2.*

2.1.0-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libjs-semver",
            "binary_version": "2.1.0-2ubuntu0.0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "node-semver",
            "binary_version": "2.1.0-2ubuntu0.0.1~esm1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / node-semver

Package

Name: node-semver
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-semver@2.1.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.1.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

Affected versions

2.*

2.1.0-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libjs-semver",
            "binary_version": "2.1.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "node-semver",
            "binary_version": "2.1.0-2ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}