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CVE-2012-2859

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% 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-119

Description

Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.57 on Linux does not properly handle tabs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: 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 (+17)

References

• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137541
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/07/stable-channel-release.html
• http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137541
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/07/stable-channel-release.html

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