Out-of-Bounds Affecting chromium package, versions [,40.0.2214.109)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.8% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410702
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Aug 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Aug 2014

CVE-2014-3174  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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 Out-of-Bounds modules/webaudio/BiquadDSPKernel.cpp in the Web Audio API implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 37.0.2062.94, does not properly consider concurrent threads during attempts to update biquad filter coefficients, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read of uninitialized memory) via crafted API calls.

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