CVE-2012-2829

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-06-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) implementation in Google Chrome before 20.0.1132.43 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the :first-letter pseudo-element.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 20.0.1132.42; 20.0.1132.0, 20.0.1132.1, 20.0.1132.2, 20.0.1132.3, 20.0.1132.4, 20.0.1132.5 (+36)

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=129947
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/06/stable-channel-update_26.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00005.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5485
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5502
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15075728
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15144
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=129947
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/06/stable-channel-update_26.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00005.html

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