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io.js 'V8 utf-8 decoder' Denial Of Service Vulnerability (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.5
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
7 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
The host is installed with io.js and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to an error in 'Utf8DecoderBase::WriteUtf16Slow' function in unicode-decoder.cc within Google V8 which does not verify that there is memory available for a UTF-16 surrogate pair.
Affected Software
Affected Software
io.js before 1.8.3 and 2.x before 2.3.3
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to io.js version 1.8.3 or 2.3.3 or later.