Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting v8/v8 package, versions [,4.6.85.23)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.7% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-V8V8-2365601
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Apr 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Apr 2015

CVE-2015-1242  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade v8/v8 to version 4.6.85.23 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The ReduceTransitionElementsKind function in hydrogen-check-elimination.cc in Google V8 before 4.2.77.8, as used in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that leverages "type confusion" in the check-elimination optimization.

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