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.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-5256
Reference (s):
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0516.html
- http://blog.nodejs.org/2014/07/31/v8-memory-corruption-stack-overflow/
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21684769
- https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/530af9cb8e700e7596b3ec812bad123c9fa06356
- MANDRIVA:MDVSA-2015:142