CVE-2009-2555

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-07-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in src/jsregexp.cc in Google V8 before 1.1.10.14, as used in Google Chrome before 2.0.172.37, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the Chrome sandbox via a crafted JavaScript regular expression.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 2.0.172.33; 0.2.149.29, 0.2.149.30, 0.2.152.1, 0.2.153.1, 0.3.154.0, 0.3.154.3 (+21)
Google V8: through 1.0

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=14719
http://codereview.chromium.org/141042
http://codereview.chromium.org/141042/diff/6/1004
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/07/stable-beta-update-bug-fixes.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/35844
http://www.osvdb.org/55939
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35722
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1924
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51801
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=14719
http://codereview.chromium.org/141042
http://codereview.chromium.org/141042/diff/6/1004

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