Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-5256 - Improper Restriction of Operations Within the Bounds of A Memory Buffer vulnerability in Nodejs

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
nodejs
CWE-119
nessus
NVD
Published: 2014-09-05
Updated: 2015-05-12

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Nodejs
58

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables
    This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
  • Overflow Buffers
    Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
  • Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow
    This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
  • Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow
    In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
  • MIME Conversion
    An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.

Nessus

NASL familyMandriva Local Security Checks
NASL idMANDRIVA_MDVSA-2015-142.NASL
descriptionUpdated nodejs package fixes security vulnerabilities : 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. In certain circumstances, a particularly deep recursive workload that may trigger a GC and receive an interrupt may overflow the stack and result in a segmentation fault. For instance, if your work load involves successive JSON.parse calls and the parsed objects are significantly deep, you may experience the process aborting while parsing (CVE-2014-5256). Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google V8 before 3.24.35.10, as used in Node.js before 0.10.31, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via unknown vectors (CVE-2013-6668). The nodejs package has been updated to version 0.10.33 to fix these issues as well as several other bugs.
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id82395
published2015-03-30
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/82395
titleMandriva Linux Security Advisory : nodejs (MDVSA-2015:142)
code
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:142. 
# The text itself is copyright (C) Mandriva S.A.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(82395);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:56");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2013-6668", "CVE-2014-5256");
  script_xref(name:"MDVSA", value:"2015:142");

  script_name(english:"Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : nodejs (MDVSA-2015:142)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"Updated nodejs package fixes security vulnerabilities :

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. In certain circumstances, a particularly deep
recursive workload that may trigger a GC and receive an interrupt may
overflow the stack and result in a segmentation fault. For instance,
if your work load involves successive JSON.parse calls and the parsed
objects are significantly deep, you may experience the process
aborting while parsing (CVE-2014-5256).

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google V8 before 3.24.35.10,
as used in Node.js before 0.10.31, allow attackers to cause a denial
of service or possibly have other impact via unknown vectors
(CVE-2013-6668).

The nodejs package has been updated to version 0.10.33 to fix these
issues as well as several other bugs."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0516.html"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected nodejs package."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:nodejs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:mandriva:business_server:2");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/03/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/03/30");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Mandriva Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/Mandrake/release", "Host/Mandrake/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Mandriva / Mandake Linux");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Mandrake/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu !~ "^(amd64|i[3-6]86|x86_64)$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Mandriva / Mandrake Linux", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"MDK-MBS2", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"nodejs-0.10.33-1.mbs2")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");

Redhat

rpms
  • v8314-v8-1:3.14.5.10-6.el6
  • v8314-v8-1:3.14.5.10-6.el7
  • v8314-v8-debuginfo-1:3.14.5.10-6.el6
  • v8314-v8-debuginfo-1:3.14.5.10-6.el7
  • v8314-v8-devel-1:3.14.5.10-6.el6
  • v8314-v8-devel-1:3.14.5.10-6.el7

References