CVE-2015-8855

Name	CVE-2015-8855
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)."
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
node-semver (PTS)	bullseye	7.3.4-1	fixed
	bookworm	7.3.5+~7.3.9-2	fixed
	forky, sid, trixie	7.6.1+~7.5.8-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
node-semver	source	(unstable)	5.3.0-1	unimportant

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/semver_redos
https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.7.5
libv8 is not covered by security support