CVE-2015-1299

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-09-01
CWE:
CWE-416
Bugzilla:
1259168: CVE-2015-1299 chromium-browser: Use-after-free in Blink

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Use-after-free vulnerability in the shared-timer implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging erroneous timer firing, related to ThreadTimers.cpp and Timer.cpp.

Find out more about CVE-2015-1299 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.4
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (chromium-browser) RHSA-2015:1712 2015-09-03

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