Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : semver vulnerability (USN-4776-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4776-1 advisory. It was discovered that semver incorrectly handled certain inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Tenable has...

08cms (1.0.0), 24_hrs_js (1.0.0) +6201 more potentially affected by CVE-2015-8855 via semver (>=1.0.7, <=4.3.1)

semver NPM version =1.0.7, =0.0.1-alpha, =0.0.2, =0.0.1, =0.11.6, =1.2.0, =0.1.3-v1, =0.0.1, =0.0.11, =0.0.1, =1.0.0 and more Source cves: CVE-2015-8855 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-X6FG-F45M-JF5Q...

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."...

CVE-2015-8855

The CVE-2015-8855 entry concerns the semver package for Node.js, where versions before 4.3.2 are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) via an excessively long version string. Root cause: an error in the regular expression implementation within semver. Impact: potential CPU ...