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Fedora 20: 2015-6908 Moderate: V8 ARM Fix for CVE-2014-3152

fedora
Calendar Grey May 8, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Tackling ARM-related challenges in V8 for Fedora 20, specifically CVE-2014-3152, to bolster platform security.
Fix for ARM-only CVE-2014-3152

Summary

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.

Update Information:

Fix for ARM-only CVE-2014-3152

Change Log

* Thu Apr 23 2015 Tom Callaway - 1:3.14.5.10-18 - backport security fix for ARM - CVE-2014-3152 * Thu Feb 19 2015 T.C. Hollingsworth - 1:3.14.5.10-17 - backports for nodejs 0.10.36 * Mon Jan 26 2015 David Tardon - 1:3.14.5.10-16 - rebuild for ICU 54.1 * Tue Dec 2 2014 Tom Callaway - 1:3.14.5.10-15 - use system valgrind header (bz1141483) * Wed Sep 17 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth - 1:3.14.5.10-14 - backport bugfix that eliminates unused-local-typedefs warning - backport security fix: Fix Hydrogen bounds check elimination (CVE-2013-6668; RHBZ#1086120) - backport fix to segfault caused by the above patch * Tue Aug 26 2014 David Tardon - 1:3.14.5.10-13 - rebuild for ICU 53.1 * Mon Aug 18 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 1:3.14.5.10-12 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild * Thu Jul 31 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth - 1:3.14.5.10-11 - backport security fix for memory corruption and stack overflow (RHBZ#1125464) https://groups.google.com/g/nodejs/c/-siJEObdp10/m/2xcqqmTHiEMJ - backport bug fix for x64 MathMinMax for negative untagged int32 arguments. https://github.com/nodejs/node-v0.x-archive/commit/3530fa9cd09f8db8101c4649cab03bcdf760c434 * Thu Jun 19 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth - 1:3.14.5.10-10 - fix corner case in integer comparisons (v8 bug#2416; nodejs bug#7528) * Sun Jun 8 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 1:3.14.5.10-9 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild * Sat May 3 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth - 1:3.14.5.10-8 - use clock_gettime() instead of gettimeofday(), which increases V8 performance dramatically on virtual machines * Tue Mar 18 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth - 1:3.14.5.10-7 - backport fix for unsigned integer arithmetic (RHBZ#1077136; CVE-2014-1704) * Mon Feb 24 2014 Tomas Hrcka - 1:3.14.5.10-6 - Backport fix for incorrect handling of popular pages (RHBZ#1059070; CVE-2013-6640) * Fri Feb 14 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth - 1:3.14.5.10-5 - rebuild for icu-52 * Mon Jan 27 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth - 1:3.14.5.10-4 - backport fix for enumeration for objects with lots of properties * Fri Dec 13 2013 T.C. Hollingsworth - 1:3.14.5.10-3 - backport fix for out-of-bounds read DoS (RHBZ#1039889; CVE-2013-6640)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1101056 - CVE-2014-3152 v8: integer underflow fixed in Google Chrome 35.0.1916.114 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101056

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update v8' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: v8
Product: Fedora 20
Version: 3.14.5.10
Release: 18.fc20
Summary: JavaScript Engine

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