Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting chromium package, versions [,44.0.2403.89)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
6.74% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409139
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 May 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 May 2015

CVE-2015-1256  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 44.0.2403.89 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Use-after-free vulnerability in the SVG implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.65, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document that leverages improper handling of a shadow tree for a use element.

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