CVE-2015-5605

Publication date 22 July 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Description

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
libv8 18.10 cosmic Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
17.10 artful Not in release
17.04 zesty Not in release
16.10 yakkety Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
15.10 wily Not in release
15.04 vivid Not in release
14.10 utopic Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life
libv8-3.14 18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored libv8 not supported
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored libv8 not supported
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life
14.10 utopic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
oxide-qt 18.10 cosmic Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
17.10 artful
Fixed 1.8.4-0ubuntu1
17.04 zesty
Fixed 1.8.4-0ubuntu1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 1.8.4-0ubuntu1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.8.4-0ubuntu1
15.10 wily
Fixed 1.8.4-0ubuntu1
15.04 vivid
Fixed 1.8.4-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
14.10 utopic Ignored end of life, was needed
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.8.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
chromium-browser 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 44.0.2403.89-0ubuntu1.1195
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 44.0.2403.89-0ubuntu1.1195
17.10 artful
Fixed 44.0.2403.89-0ubuntu1.1195
17.04 zesty
Fixed 44.0.2403.89-0ubuntu1.1195
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 44.0.2403.89-0ubuntu1.1195
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 44.0.2403.89-0ubuntu1.1195
15.10 wily
Fixed 44.0.2403.89-0ubuntu1.1195
15.04 vivid
Fixed 44.0.2403.89-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1177
14.10 utopic Ignored end of life, was needed
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 44.0.2403.89-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1095
12.04 LTS precise Ignored

Notes

mikesalvatore

The Ubuntu Security Team does not support libv8

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libv8
chromium-browser

References

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