PT-2020-7789 · Libuv+1 · Libuv+1

Zhou Ran · Published 2016-02-10 · Updated 2022-08-12 · CVE-2014-9748

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: libuv versions prior to 1.7.4

Description: The issue is related to the uv rwlock t fallback implementation for Windows XP and Server 2003 in libuv. It does not properly prevent threads from releasing the locks of other threads, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (deadlock) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging a race condition.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 1.7.4, update to version 1.7.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Race Condition

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-362

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1086

CVE-2014-9748

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Libuv

References · 14

• 🔥 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/libuv/KyNnGEXR0OA/NWb605ev2LUJ · Exploit
• https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/515 · Patch
• https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/516 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9748 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9748 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9748 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9748 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9748 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-9748 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9748 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/2723 · Note
• https://github.com/nodejs/nodejs.org/blob/master/locale/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2016-security-releases.md · Note
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/libuv/WO2cl9zasN8 · Note
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/libuv/KyNnGEXR0OA/NWb605ev2LUJ · Note