news 28 Posted April 5, 2017 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: v8 security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:0881-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0881 Issue date: 2017-04-05 CVE Names: CVE-2016-1669 ===================================================================== 1. Summary: An update for v8 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7. 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 Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 - 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 6. Package List: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7: Source: v8-3.14.5.10-19.el7ost.src.rpm x86_64: v8-3.14.5.10-19.el7ost.x86_64.rpm v8-debuginfo-3.14.5.10-19.el7ost.x86_64.rpm These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/ 7. References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1669 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate 8. Contact: The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/ Copyright 2017 Red Hat, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iD8DBQFY5F9eXlSAg2UNWIIRAqHkAKCuEXfzSShUTIuifLBz/6a3rJUQoACaA34e FTLdtzfSdFXOa1S1ymYxvkI= =yG75 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Share this post Link to post
