Ubuntu: USN-4776-1 (CVE-2015-8855): semver vulnerability
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
01/23/2017
03/29/2023
03/22/2023
03/22/2023
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)."
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libjs-semver
- ubuntu-upgrade-node-semver
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