-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2013-12386 2013-12-15 19:20:11 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : v8 Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 3.14.5.10 Release : 3.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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This update resolves multiple security vulnerabilities in the V8 JavaScript just-in-time compiler.
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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-6640 to the following vulnerability:
Name: CVE-2013-6640 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6640 Assigned: 20131105 Reference: http://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=17801 Reference: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/12/stable-channel-update.html Reference: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=319860
The DehoistArrayIndex function in hydrogen-dehoist.cc in Google V8 before 3.22.24.7, as used in Google Chrome before 31.0.1650.63, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via JavaScript code that sets a variable to the value of an array element with a crafted index.
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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-6639 to the following vulnerability:
Name: CVE-2013-6639 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6639 Assigned: 20131105 Reference: http://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=17801 Reference: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/12/stable-channel-update.html Reference: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=319835
The DehoistArrayIndex function in hydrogen-dehoist.cc in Google V8 before 3.22.24.7, as used in Google Chrome before 31.0.1650.63, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via JavaScript code that sets the value of an array element with a crafted index. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1039888 - CVE-2013-6639 v8: DoS (out-of-bounds write) in DehoistArrayIndex function in hydrogen.cc https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039888 [ 2 ] Bug #1039889 - CVE-2013-6640 v8: DoS (out-of-bounds read) in DehoistArrayIndex function in hydrogen.cc https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039889 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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/.
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