Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2014-5256 |
CWE-ID | CWE-119 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Node.js Server applications / Web servers |
Vendor | Node.js Foundation |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU41349
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-5256
CWE-ID:
CWE-119 - Memory corruption
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
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.
MitigationInstall update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsNode.js: 0.8.0 - 0.10.29
CPE2.3http://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
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21684769
http://github.com/joyent/node/commit/530af9cb8e700e7596b3ec812bad123c9fa06356
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?
The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.