{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5256","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-22T09:46:33.553961Z","published":"2014-09-05T17:55:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2014-5256"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-5256"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5256"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"libv8-3.14","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/libv8-3.14@3.14.5.8-5ubuntu2?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["3.14.5.8-5ubuntu2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libv8-3.14.5","binary_version":"3.14.5.8-5ubuntu2"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5256.json"}},{"package":{"name":"libv8-3.14","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/libv8-3.14@3.14.5.8-11ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=bionic"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["3.14.5.8-11ubuntu1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libv8-3.14.5","binary_version":"3.14.5.8-11ubuntu1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5256.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}