CVE-2012-5137

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-12-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome before 23.0.1271.95 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the Media Source API.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 23.0.1271.94; 23.0.1271.0, 23.0.1271.1, 23.0.1271.2, 23.0.1271.3, 23.0.1271.4, 23.0.1271.5 (+59)
Opensuse: 12.1, 12.2

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/11/stable-channel-update_29.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51447
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56741
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162835
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15819
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/11/stable-channel-update_29.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-12/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/51447
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56741
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=162835
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15819

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