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.

The remote Fedora 32 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2020-d714c08261 advisory.

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 31 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2020-5eca570e16 advisory.

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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	medium
136988	Fedora 31 : marked (2020-5eca570e16)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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CVE-2015-8854

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Tenable Plugins

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