Executive Summary

Summary
Title v8 security update
Informations
Name RHSA-2017:0882 First vendor Publication 2017-04-05
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2017-04-05
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Problem Description:

An update for v8 is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 - x86_64

3. Description:

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.

Security Fix(es):

* An integer-overflow flaw was found in V8's Zone class when allocating new memory (Zone::New() and Zone::NewExpand()). An attacker with the ability to manipulate a large zone could crash the application or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the application privileges. (CVE-2016-1669)

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1335449 - CVE-2016-1669 V8: integer overflow leading to buffer overflow in Zone::New

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0882.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3945
Application 333
Application 144
Os 3
Os 1
Os 3
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-11-17 Name : An IDE application installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected...
File : macosx_xcode_81.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-10-12 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-1172.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-10 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-6fd3131c03.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-08-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2016-e720bc8451.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-07-21 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-884.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-27 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-756.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-06-02 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3590.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-31 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_4dfafa1624ba11e6bd313065ec8fd3ec.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-19 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2960-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-17 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201605-02.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2016-584.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-16 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2016-1080.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-13 Name : A web browser installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vu...
File : google_chrome_50_0_2661_102.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-05-13 Name : A web browser installed on the remote Mac OS X host is affected by multiple v...
File : macosx_google_chrome_50_0_2661_102.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2017-04-05 05:21:06
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