Candidate: CVE-2015-8855
PublicDate: 2017-01-23 21:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8855
 https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/semver_redos
 https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.7.5
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)."
Ubuntu-Description:
 It was discovered that semver incorrectly handled certain inputs. A remote
 attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_node-semver:
upstream_node-semver: released (4.3.0-1)
precise_node-semver: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_node-semver: DNE (precise was needed)
trusty_node-semver: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_node-semver: needed
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_node-semver: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_node-semver: DNE
wily_node-semver: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_node-semver: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
yakkety_node-semver: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_node-semver: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_node-semver: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_node-semver: not-affected (5.4.1-1)
cosmic_node-semver: not-affected (5.4.1-1)
disco_node-semver: not-affected (5.4.1-1)
eoan_node-semver: not-affected (5.4.1-1)
focal_node-semver: not-affected (5.4.1-1)
groovy_node-semver: not-affected (5.4.1-1)
hirsute_node-semver: not-affected (5.4.1-1)
impish_node-semver: not-affected (5.4.1-1)
jammy_node-semver: not-affected (5.4.1-1)
devel_node-semver: not-affected (5.4.1-1)