Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting v8 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.29% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-V8-9856158
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed31 Jul 2014

Introduced: 31 Jul 2014

CVE-2014-5256  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 v8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream v8 package and not the v8 package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1