Bug 896272 (CVE-2013-0836)

Summary:	CVE-2013-0836 v8: DoS due to improperly implemented garbage collection
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vincent Danen <vdanen>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	sgallagh, tcallawa, tchollingsworth, tomspur
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	v8 3.14.5.3	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2013-04-11 20:12:39 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	896273, 896274
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Description Vincent Danen 2013-01-16 22:45:24 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-0836 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2013-0836
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0836
Assigned: 20130107
Reference: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/01/stable-channel-update.html
Reference: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=150545

Google V8 before 3.14.5.3, as used in Google Chrome before
24.0.1312.52, does not properly implement garbage collection, which
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application
crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted
JavaScript code.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2013-01-16 22:47:40 UTC

Created v8 tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 896273]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 896274]

Comment 2 T.C. Hollingsworth 2013-03-16 01:54:49 UTC

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-20578/nodejs-0.10.0-3.fc18,libuv-0.10.0-2.git5462dab.fc18,v8-3.14.5.7-1.fc18?_csrf_token=5f9e7063bff231451f4926f677064553a1682514

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2013-04-05 23:02:57 UTC

v8-3.14.5.8-1.fc18, nodejs-0.10.2-1.fc18, libuv-0.10.3-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.