[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: v8-3.14.5.10-7.el6

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2014-0888
2014-03-19 18:11:56
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Name        : v8
Product     : Fedora EPEL 6
Version     : 3.14.5.10
Release     : 7.el6
URL         : http://code.google.com/p/v8
Summary     : JavaScript Engine
Description :
V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine. V8 is written in C++ and is used
in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google. V8 implements ECMAScript
as specified in ECMA-262, 3rd edition.

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Update Information:

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2014-1704 to
the following vulnerability:

URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1704

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google V8 before 3.23.17.18,
as used in Google Chrome before 33.0.1750.149, allow attackers to
cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via unknown
vectors.

Only one vulnerability in this CVE affects v8-3.14.5.10 in EPEL.  This update fixes the vulnerability involving unsigned integer arithmetic.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1077136 - CVE-2014-1704 v8: multiple vulnerabilities in v8 fixed in Google Chrome version 33.0.1750.149
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077136
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update v8' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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