CVE-2013-2902

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2013-08-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the XSLT ProcessingInstruction implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 29.0.1547.57, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to an applyXSLTransform call involving (1) an HTML document or (2) an xsl:processing-instruction element that is still in the process of loading.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
Google Chrome: through 29.0.1547.56; 29.0.1547.0, 29.0.1547.1, 29.0.1547.2, 29.0.1547.3, 29.0.1547.4, 29.0.1547.5 (+44)

References

http://crbug.com/260105
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/08/stable-channel-update.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2741
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18313
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=155043&view=revision
http://crbug.com/260105
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2013/08/stable-channel-update.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2741
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18313
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=155043&view=revision

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