CVE-2014-5256

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-09-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Node.js 0.8 before 0.8.28 and 0.10 before 0.10.30 does not consider the possibility of recursive processing that triggers V8 garbage collection in conjunction with a V8 interrupt, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via deep JSON objects whose parsing lets this interrupt mask an overflow of the program stack.

Affected products

nodejs: 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.8.4, 0.8.5 (+52)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0516.html
http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/07/31/v8-memory-corruption-stack-overflow/
http://secunia.com/advisories/61260
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21684769
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:142
https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/530af9cb8e700e7596b3ec812bad123c9fa06356
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0516.html
http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/07/31/v8-memory-corruption-stack-overflow/
http://secunia.com/advisories/61260
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21684769
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:142
https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/530af9cb8e700e7596b3ec812bad123c9fa06356

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