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V8 Memory Corruption and Stack Overflow

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A V8 memory corruption vulnerability in Node.js 0.8 and 0.10 can cause a denial of service when deeply recursive workloads trigger garbage collection and an interrupt. The issue is fixed in Node.js v0.8.28 and v0.10.30; limiting JSON request sizes is suggested as a mitigation.

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Security context

A memory corruption vulnerability, which results in a denial-of-service, was identified in the versions of V8 that ship with Node.js 0.8 and 0.10.

Node.js

The Node.js Project V8 Memory Corruption and Stack Overflow
Affected versions
0.8
the versions of V8 that ship with Node.js 0.8 and 0.10
0.10
the versions of V8 that ship with Node.js 0.8 and 0.10
Fixed versions
v0.8.28
And has been released in the following versions: v0.10.30 v0.8.28
v0.10.30
And has been released in the following versions: v0.10.30 v0.8.28
Prerequisites
Not stated in this extraction
Related CVEs
CVE-2015-8027
PreviousCVE-2015-8027 Denial of Service Vulnerability / CVE-2015-6764 V8 Out-of-bounds Access VulnerabilityNext

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