CVE-2014-3165

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-13 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in modules/websockets/WorkerThreadableWebSocketChannel.cpp in the Web Sockets implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 36.0.1985.143, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger an unexpectedly long lifetime of a temporary object during method completion.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Google Chrome: through 36.0.1985.142; 36.0.1985.1, 36.0.1985.2, 36.0.1985.3, 36.0.1985.4, 36.0.1985.5, 36.0.1985.6 (+111)

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/08/stable-channel-update.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59904
http://secunia.com/advisories/60798
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3039
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69201
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030732
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=390174
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95247
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=177359&view=revision
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/08/stable-channel-update.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59904

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