Use After Free Affecting chromium package, versions [,40.0.2214.109)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
4.29% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409113
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Oct 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Oct 2014

CVE-2014-3192  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 40.0.2214.109 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use-after-free vulnerability in the ProcessingInstruction::setXSLStyleSheet function in core/dom/ProcessingInstruction.cpp in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 38.0.2125.101, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

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