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Fedora 20 : v8-3.14.5.10-7.fc20 (2014-4625)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 73538

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2014-1704 to the following vulnerability :

URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1704

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google V8 before 3.23.17.18, as used in Google Chrome before 33.0.1750.149, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via unknown vectors.

Only one vulnerability in this CVE affects v8-3.14.5.10 in Fedora.
This update fixes the vulnerability involving unsigned integer arithmetic.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected v8 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077136

http://www.nessus.org/u?ca3e1b48

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 73538

File Name: fedora_2014-4625.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/16/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:v8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1704

BID: 66120

FEDORA: 2014-4625