SB2015072302 - Input validation error in Novell Opensuse
Published: July 23, 2015 Updated: August 9, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015072302
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5605)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
The regular-expression implementation in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89, mishandles interrupts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted JavaScript code, as demonstrated by an error in garbage collection during allocation of a stack-overflow exception message.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1499.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76007
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033031
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git/+/c67cb287a901ddf03d4ae4dafcf431d09fd3e22c
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=469480
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=512110