CVE-2014-5256

Description

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.

How to fix CVE-2014-5256

To remediate CVE-2014-5256, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• Debian/nodejs—upgrade to 0.10.38~dfsg-1 or later

Is CVE-2014-5256 being exploited?

Low — EPSS is 1.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.

Affected packages (1)

• from 0, < 0.10.38~dfsg-1

References (1)

• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5256