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…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.3% · top 11% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21684769 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 61260 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0516.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/530af9cb8e700e7596b3ec812bad123c9fa06356 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/07/31/v8-memory-corruption-stack-overflow/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• MDVSA-2015:142 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 11:41 UTC.