CVE-2015-1209

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2015-02-04
CWE:
CWE-416
Bugzilla:
1190123: CVE-2015-1209 chromium-browser: use-after-free in DOM

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Use-after-free vulnerability in the VisibleSelection::nonBoundaryShadowTreeRootNode function in core/editing/VisibleSelection.cpp in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.111 on Windows, OS X, and Linux and before 40.0.2214.109 on Android, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that triggers improper handling of a shadow-root anchor.

Find out more about CVE-2015-1209 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of webkitgtk and webkitgtk3 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 respectively.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (chromium-browser) RHSA-2015:0163 2015-02-10

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 webkitgtk3 Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 webkitgtk Will not fix

External References

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