CVE-2015-8855

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CVE-2015-8855

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Upstream information

CVE-2015-8855 at MITRE

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)."

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 976547 [RESOLVED / INVALID]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Apr 21 01:18:58 2016
CVE page last modified: Mon Feb 13 11:58:23 2023