CVE-2015-1218 Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <41.0.2272.76-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1076


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.62% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-CHROMIUMBROWSER-412253
  • published9 Mar 2015
  • disclosed9 Mar 2015

Introduced: 9 Mar 2015

CVE-2015-1218  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 chromium-browser to version 41.0.2272.76-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1076 or higher.

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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger movement of a SCRIPT element to different documents, related to (1) the HTMLScriptElement::didMoveToNewDocument function in core/html/HTMLScriptElement.cpp and (2) the SVGScriptElement::didMoveToNewDocument function in core/svg/SVGScriptElement.cpp.

CVSS Scores

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