CVE-2015-5380 - Thickening Troubleshooter

Description

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.

Reference

https://medium.com/@iojs/important-security-upgrades-for-node-js-and-io-js-8ac14ece5852 https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/25583 https://codereview.chromium.org/1226493003 http://blog.nodejs.org/2015/07/03/node-v0-12-6-stable/ http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75556