CVE-2015-5380

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-5380
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-07-09 10:59:00 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionThe Utf8DecoderBase::WriteUtf16Slow function in unicode-decoder.cc in Google V8, as used in Node.js before 0.12.6, io.js before 1.8.3 and 2.x before 2.3.3, and other products, does not verify that there is memory available for a UTF-16 surrogate pair, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted byte sequence.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Google V8 - All All All
Application Iojs Io.js 2.0.0 All All All
Application Iojs Io.js 2.0.1 All All All
Application Iojs Io.js 2.0.2 All All All
Application Iojs Io.js 2.1.0 All All All
Application Iojs Io.js 2.2.0 All All All
Application Iojs Io.js 2.2.1 All All All
Application Iojs Io.js 2.3.0 All All All
Application Iojs Io.js 2.3.1 All All All
Application Iojs Io.js 2.3.2 All All All
Application Iojs Io.js All All All All
Application Nodejs Node.js All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Node.js 'unicode.cc' Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Issue 1226493003: unicode-decoder: fix out-of-band write in utf16 - Code Review af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 codereview.chromium.org
Important security upgrades for node.js and io.js — Node & JavaScript — Medium af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 medium.com
Segfault on node 0.12.4, to do with unicode and buffers · Issue #25583 · joyent/node · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
Node v0.12.6 (Stable) | Node.js af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blog.nodejs.org Patch
Important security upgrades for node.js and io.js — Node & JavaScript — Medium MITRE medium.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690322 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for node, iojs, and v8 (864e6f75-2372-11e5-86ff-14dae9d210b8)

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