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)."

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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). (CVE-2015-8854)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

New upstream release with bug and security fixes. Also, consolidates duplicate pakages marked and nodejs-marked. I tested upgrades from both, but may have missed some wonky situation.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254221	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-8854	Nessus	Misc.	high
137121	Fedora 32 : marked (2020-d714c08261)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
136988	Fedora 31 : marked (2020-5eca570e16)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

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CVE-2015-8854

high

Tenable Plugins

high

critical

critical