CVE-2014-5256
It was discovered that V8 did not properly check the stack size limit in certain cases. A remote attacker able to send a request that caused a script executed by V8 to use deep recursion could trigger a stack overflow, leading to a crash of an application using V8.
Find out more about CVE-2014-5256 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Statement
Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Low security impact in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in a future security update.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 6.8 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (v8314-v8) | RHSA-2014:1744 | 2014-10-30 |
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (v8314-v8) | RHSA-2014:1744 | 2014-10-30 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 | v8 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 | ruby193-v8 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | v8 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 | v8 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1 | ruby193-v8 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 (Icehouse) | v8 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 | v8 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0 | ruby193-v8 | Will not fix |