CVE-2013-6668 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2013-6668?

CVE-2013-6668 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 5 Mar 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google V8 before 3.24.35.10, as used in Google Chrome before 33.0.1750.146, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-6668?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Google Chrome, Google V8, Nodejs Node.js.

How do I fix CVE-2013-6668?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2013-6668 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-6668 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-h225-x2r7-r2m9, UBUNTU-CVE-2013-6668.