CVE-2014-5256

Publication date 5 September 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Node.js 0.8 before 0.8.28 and 0.10 before 0.10.30 does not consider the possibility of recursive processing that triggers V8 garbage collection in conjunction with a V8 interrupt, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via deep JSON objects whose parsing lets this interrupt mask an overflow of the program stack.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libv8 18.10 cosmic Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
17.10 artful Not in release
17.04 zesty Not in release
16.10 yakkety Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
15.10 wily Not in release
15.04 vivid Not in release
14.10 utopic Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored end of life
libv8-3.14 18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored libv8 not supported
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored libv8 not supported
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life
14.10 utopic Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

CVE is for nodejs, but nodejs package uses system libv8

mikesalvatore

The Ubuntu Security Team does not support libv8