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DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8854

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 "ca...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 node-marked

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.3.6+dfsg-1"}]}]

Debian:13 node-marked

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.3.6+dfsg-1"}]}]

Debian:14 node-marked

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.3.6+dfsg-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org