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

EPSS
1.62% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409446
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jul 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-1272  (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 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.

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