CVE-2014-1742

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the FrameSelection::updateAppearance function in core/editing/FrameSelection.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 34.0.1847.137, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging improper RenderObject handling.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 34.0.1847.136; 34.0.1847.0, 34.0.1847.1, 34.0.1847.2, 34.0.1847.3, 34.0.1847.4, 34.0.1847.5 (+86)

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/05/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00023.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59155
http://secunia.com/advisories/60372
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2930
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67375
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030240
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=356690
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=171440&view=revision
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/05/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00023.html

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