CVE-2014-3169

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-27 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in core/dom/ContainerNode.cpp in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 37.0.2062.94, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging script execution that occurs before notification of node removal.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
Google Chrome: through 37.0.2062.93; 37.0.2062.0, 37.0.2062.1, 37.0.2062.2, 37.0.2062.3, 37.0.2062.4, 37.0.2062.5 (+75)
Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/08/stable-channel-update_26.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00027.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60268
http://secunia.com/advisories/60424
http://secunia.com/advisories/61482
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3039
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69405
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030767
https://crbug.com/387389
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95469
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=178976&view=revision

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