Security Bulletin
Summary
Denial of service vulnerability caused by an out of bounds write in the V8 JavaScript engine's UTF decoder.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2015-5380
DESCRIPTION: Google V8, as used in Node.js, is vulnerable to a denial of service that is caused by the failure to verify available memory for a UTF-16 surrogate pair. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by using a specially crafted byte sequence to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service or have an unspecified impact.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/104510 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
This vulnerability affects IBM SDK for Node.js v1.2.0.3 and previous releases.
Remediation/Fixes
The fix for this vulnerability is included in IBM SDK for Node.js v1.2.0.4 and subsequent releases.
IBM SDK for Node.js can be downloaded, subject to the terms of the developerWorks license, from here.
IBM customers requiring an update for an SDK shipped with an IBM product should contact IBM support, and/or refer to the appropriate product security bulletin.
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References
Change History
14 July 2015: Original version published
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Information
Modified date:
08 August 2018
UID
swg21961847