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Fedora 21 FEDORA-2015-6845 Critical: V8 ARM Fix for ARM-Only Issue

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Resolution for ARM-exclusive bug in v8 JavaScript engine upgrade for Fedora 21 tackles vital security issues efficiently.
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

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Topics Covered

security advisory update critical Fedora JavaScript v8 engine arm issue

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)

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 .

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Name: v8
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 3.14.5.10
Release: 18.fc21
URL: https://issues.chromium.org/issues
Summary: JavaScript Engine

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security advisory update critical Fedora JavaScript v8 engine arm issue

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