RHSA-2017:0881 - Security Advisory

标题

An update for v8 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7.

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.

描述

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)

解决方案

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

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

受影响的产品

• Red Hat OpenStack 7 x86_64

修复

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

CVE

• CVE-2016-1669

参考

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