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 "catastrophic backtracking issue for the em inline rule," aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."

• CWE-1333

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO2RMVVZVV6NFTU46B5RYRK7ZCXYARZS/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M6BJG6RGDH7ZWVVAUFBFI5L32RSMQN2S/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/23Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K05052081?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSSThird Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BO2RMVVZVV6NFTU46B5RYRK7ZCXYARZS/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M6BJG6RGDH7ZWVVAUFBFI5L32RSMQN2S/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/23Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K05052081?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSSThird Party Advisory

Published

Jan 23, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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