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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-12386
2013-12-15 19:20:11
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Name : v8
Product : Fedora EPEL 6
Version : 3.14.5.10
Release : 3.el6
URL :
http://code.google.com/p/v8
Summary : JavaScript Engine
Description :
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.
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Update Information:
This update resolves multiple security vulnerabilities in the V8 JavaScript just-in-time
compiler.
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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-6640 to the following
vulnerability:
Name: CVE-2013-6640
URL:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6640
Assigned: 20131105
Reference:
http://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=17801
Reference:
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/12/stable-channel-update.html
Reference:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=319860
The DehoistArrayIndex function in hydrogen-dehoist.cc in Google V8 before 3.22.24.7, as
used in Google Chrome before 31.0.1650.63, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (out-of-bounds read) via JavaScript code that sets a variable to the value of an
array element with a crafted index.
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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-6639 to the following
vulnerability:
Name: CVE-2013-6639
URL:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6639
Assigned: 20131105
Reference:
http://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=17801
Reference:
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/12/stable-channel-update.html
Reference:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=319835
The DehoistArrayIndex function in hydrogen-dehoist.cc in Google V8 before 3.22.24.7, as
used in Google Chrome before 31.0.1650.63, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via JavaScript
code that sets the value of an array element with a crafted index.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1039888 - CVE-2013-6639 v8: DoS (out-of-bounds write) in DehoistArrayIndex
function in hydrogen.cc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039888
[ 2 ] Bug #1039889 - CVE-2013-6640 v8: DoS (out-of-bounds read) in DehoistArrayIndex
function in hydrogen.cc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039889
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update v8' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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