Regular-Expression Implementation Vulnerability in Google V8

CVE-2015-5605 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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