-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2014-0888 2014-03-19 18:11:56 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : v8 Product : Fedora EPEL 6 Version : 3.14.5.10 Release : 7.el6 URL : http://code.google.com/p/v8 Summary : JavaScript Engine 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.
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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2014-1704 to the following vulnerability:
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1704
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google V8 before 3.23.17.18, as used in Google Chrome before 33.0.1750.149, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via unknown vectors.
Only one vulnerability in this CVE affects v8-3.14.5.10 in EPEL. This update fixes the vulnerability involving unsigned integer arithmetic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1077136 - CVE-2014-1704 v8: multiple vulnerabilities in v8 fixed in Google Chrome version 33.0.1750.149 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077136 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update v8' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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