[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: v8-3.14.5.10-6.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-3253
2014-02-28 17:43:14
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Name        : v8
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 3.14.5.10
Release     : 6.fc19
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-2013-6650 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2013-6650

URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6650

The StoreBuffer::ExemptPopularPages function in store-buffer.cc in
Google V8 before 3.22.24.16, as used in Google Chrome before
32.0.1700.102, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via
vectors that trigger incorrect handling of "popular pages."
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Feb 24 2014 Tomas Hrcka <thrcka at redhat.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-6
- Backport fix for incorrect handling of popular pages (RHBZ#1059070; CVE-2013-6640)
* Fri Feb 14 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-5
- rebuild for icu-52
* Mon Jan 27 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-4
- backport fix for enumeration for objects with lots of properties
* Fri Dec 13 2013 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-3
- backport fix for out-of-bounds read DoS (RHBZ#1039889; CVE-2013-6640)
* Fri Aug  2 2013 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-2
- backport fix for remote DoS or unspecified other impact via type confusion
  (RHBZ#991116; CVE-2013-2882)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1059070 - CVE-2013-6650 v8: incorrect handling of popular pages
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1059070
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  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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