Synopsis

Moderate: v8 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for v8 is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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.

Security Fix(es):

• An integer-overflow flaw was found in V8's Zone class when allocating new memory (Zone::New() and Zone::NewExpand()). An attacker with the ability to manipulate a large zone could crash the application or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the application privileges. (CVE-2016-1669)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 9 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1335449 - CVE-2016-1669 V8: integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Zone::New

CVEs

• CVE-2016-1669

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Red Hat OpenStack 9

SRPM
v8-3.14.5.10-19.el7ost.src.rpm	SHA-256: 16aa9bfa01aa3c0c45fba74714214c5795f92e7619a973de09e2c7a0717256e5
x86_64
v8-3.14.5.10-19.el7ost.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: fff8c7b3660b3e48ca4fa8f160cb2df6f614261f115f06495e1af8f250a40c75
v8-debuginfo-3.14.5.10-19.el7ost.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: f2ed7ae526473225cf52a5e513c27cd5b52963b3e60eff3b3fe2c3d8e35e8c0e