[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: v8-3.14.5.10-3.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-23401
2013-12-15 02:33:59
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Name        : v8
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 3.14.5.10
Release     : 3.fc18
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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Update Information:

This update resolves multiple security vulnerabilities in the V8 JavaScript just-in-time compiler.

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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-6640 to the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2013-6640
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6640
Assigned: 20131105
Reference: http://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=17801
Reference: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/12/stable-channel-update.html
Reference: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=319860

The DehoistArrayIndex function in hydrogen-dehoist.cc in Google V8 before 3.22.24.7, as used in Google Chrome before 31.0.1650.63, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via JavaScript code that sets a variable to the value of an array element with a crafted index.

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Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-6639 to the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2013-6639
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6639
Assigned: 20131105
Reference: http://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=17801
Reference: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/12/stable-channel-update.html
Reference: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=319835

The DehoistArrayIndex function in hydrogen-dehoist.cc in Google V8 before 3.22.24.7, as used in Google Chrome before 31.0.1650.63, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or possibly have unspecified other impact via JavaScript code that sets the value of an array element with a crafted index.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Dec 13 2013 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-3
- backport fix for out-of-bounds read DoS (RHBZ#1039889; CVE-2013-6640)
* Fri Aug  2 2013 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-2
- backport fix for remote DoS or unspecified other impact via type confusion
  (RHBZ#991116; CVE-2013-2882)
* Wed May 29 2013 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-1
- new upstream release 3.14.5.10
* Mon May  6 2013 Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky at redhat.com> - 1:3.14.5.8-2
- Fix ownership of include directory (#958729)
* Fri Mar 22 2013 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.8-1
- new upstream release 3.14.5.8
- backport security fix for remote DoS via crafted javascript (RHBZ#924495; CVE-2013-2632)
* Mon Mar 11 2013 Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com> - 1:3.14.5.7-3
- Update to v8 3.14.5.7 for Node.js 0.10.0
* Sat Jan 26 2013 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.13.7.5-2
- rebuild for icu-50
- ignore new GCC 4.8 warning
* Tue Dec  4 2012 Tom Callaway <spot at fedoraproject.org> - 1:3.13.7.5-1
- update to 3.13.7.5 (needed for chromium 23)
- Resolves multiple security issues (CVE-2012-5120, CVE-2012-5128)
- d8 is now using a static libv8, resolves bz 881973)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1039888 - CVE-2013-6639 v8: DoS (out-of-bounds write) in DehoistArrayIndex function in hydrogen.cc
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039888
  [ 2 ] Bug #1039889 - CVE-2013-6640 v8: DoS (out-of-bounds read) in DehoistArrayIndex function in hydrogen.cc
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1039889
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  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/.

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