Buffer overflow in Google V8

CVE-2015-5380

The 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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.030 (85.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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