CVE-2012-2832

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-06-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The image-codec implementation in the PDF functionality in Google Chrome before 20.0.1132.43 does not initialize an unspecified pointer, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted document.

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=131553
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/06/stable-channel-update_26.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15455
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=131553
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/06/stable-channel-update_26.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15455

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