CVE-2014-5256

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

• v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.26%• Percentile: 80%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

  The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

• nodejs•node.js

  0.8.0 | 0.8.1 | 0.8.2 | 0.8.3 | 0.8.4 | 0.8.5 | 0.8.6 | 0.8.7 | 0.8.8 | 0.8.9 | 0.8.10 | 0.8.11 | 0.8.12 | 0.8.13 | 0.8.14 | 0.8.15 | 0.8.16 | 0.8.17 | 0.8.18 | 0.8.19 | 0.8.20 | 0.8.21 | 0.8.22 | 0.8.23 | 0.8.24 | 0.8.25 | 0.8.26 | 0.8.27 | 0.10.0 | 0.10.1 | 0.10.2 | 0.10.3 | 0.10.4 | 0.10.5 | 0.10.6 | 0.10.7 | 0.10.8 | 0.10.9 | 0.10.10 | 0.10.11 | 0.10.12 | 0.10.13 | 0.10.14 | 0.10.15 | 0.10.16 | 0.10.17 | 0.10.18 | 0.10.19 | 0.10.20 | 0.10.21 | 0.10.22 | 0.10.23 | 0.10.24 | 0.10.25 | 0.10.26 | 0.10.27 | 0.10.28 | 0.10.29

References (6)

• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21684769
• http://secunia.com/advisories/61260
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0516.html
• https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/530af9cb8e700e7596b3ec812bad123c9fa06356
• http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/07/31/v8-memory-corruption-stack-overflow/
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:142