CVE-2014-5256

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    CVE-2014-5256

    Published: 5 Sept 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

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

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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