CVE-2012-2857

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) DOM implementation in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and Linux, and before 21.0.1180.60 on Windows and Chrome Frame, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.

Affected products

Apple Iphone Os: through 6.0.2; 6.0, 6.0.1
Google Chrome: through 21.0.1180.59; through 21.0.1180.56; 21.0.1180.0, 21.0.1180.1, 21.0.1180.2, 21.0.1180.31, 21.0.1180.32, 21.0.1180.33 (+19)

References

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136235
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/07/stable-channel-release.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jan/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Mar/msg00003.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5642
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15336
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136235
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/07/stable-channel-release.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Jan/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Mar/msg00003.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5642
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15336

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