Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libv8-3.14  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-LIBV8314-356024
  • published8 Oct 2014
  • disclosed8 Oct 2014

Introduced: 8 Oct 2014

CVE-2014-3188  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libv8-3.14 package and not the libv8-3.14 package as distributed by Debian.

Google Chrome before 38.0.2125.101 and Chrome OS before 38.0.2125.101 do not properly handle the interaction of IPC and Google V8, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving JSON data, related to improper parsing of an escaped index by ParseJsonObject in json-parser.h.