Use After Free Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <0:44.0.2403.89-1.el6


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.62% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-CHROMIUMBROWSER-1498494
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Jul 2015

Introduced: 21 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-1272  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 chromium-browser to version 0:44.0.2403.89-1.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:1499.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the GPU process implementation in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the continued availability of a GPUChannelHost data structure during Blink shutdown, related to content/browser/gpu/browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc and content/renderer/render_thread_impl.cc.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1