[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: v8-3.14.5.10-14.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-10975
2014-09-19 09:02:25
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Name        : v8
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 3.14.5.10
Release     : 14.fc19
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 provides the latest stable version of Node.js and corresponding backports to the v8 package.

This update resolves CVE-2013-6668, which has only a minor impact since Node.js is not typically used to execute untrusted JavaScript.  For more information on the fixed vulnerability, please see the CVE bugs listed below.

Changes in this update include:

* v8: fix a crash introduced by previous release (Fedor Indutny)
* crypto: use domains for any callback-taking method (Chris Dickinson)
* http: do not send `0rnrn` in TE HEAD responses (Fedor Indutny)
* querystring: fix unescape override (Tristan Berger)
* url: Add support for RFC 3490 separators (Mathias Bynens)
* v8: backport CVE-2013-6668
* cluster: disconnect should not be synchronous (Sam Roberts)
* fs: fix fs.readFileSync fd leak when get RangeError (Jackson Tian)
* stream: fix Readable.wrap objectMode falsy values (James Halliday)
* timers: fix timers with non-integer delay hanging. (Julien Gilli)
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Sep 17 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-14
- backport bugfix that eliminates unused-local-typedefs warning
- backport security fix: Fix Hydrogen bounds check elimination (CVE-2013-6668; RHBZ#1086120)
- backport fix to segfault caused by the above patch
* Tue Aug 26 2014 David Tardon <dtardon at redhat.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-13
- rebuild for ICU 53.1
* Mon Aug 18 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1:3.14.5.10-12
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jul 31 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-11
- backport security fix for memory corruption and stack overflow (RHBZ#1125464)
  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/nodejs/-siJEObdp10/2xcqqmTHiEMJ
- backport bug fix for x64 MathMinMax for negative untagged int32 arguments.
  https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/3530fa9cd09f8db8101c4649cab03bcdf760c434
* Thu Jun 19 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-10
- fix corner case in integer comparisons (v8 bug#2416; nodejs bug#7528)
* Sun Jun  8 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1:3.14.5.10-9
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
* Sat May  3 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-8
- use clock_gettime() instead of gettimeofday(), which increases V8 performance
  dramatically on virtual machines
* Tue Mar 18 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-7
- backport fix for unsigned integer arithmetic (RHBZ#1077136; CVE-2014-1704)
* Mon Feb 24 2014 Tomas Hrcka <thrcka at redhat.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-6
- Backport fix for incorrect handling of popular pages (RHBZ#1059070; CVE-2013-6640)
* Fri Feb 14 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-5
- rebuild for icu-52
* Mon Jan 27 2014 T.C. Hollingsworth <tchollingsworth at gmail.com> - 1:3.14.5.10-4
- backport fix for enumeration for objects with lots of properties
* 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)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1074737 - CVE-2013-6668 v8: multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Google Chrome version 33.0.1750.146
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1074737
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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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