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CVE-2015-1218
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2015-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Description
Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger movement of a SCRIPT element to different documents, related to (1) the HTMLScriptElement::didMoveToNewDocument function in core/html/HTMLScriptElement.cpp and (2) the SVGScriptElement::didMoveToNewDocument function in core/svg/SVGScriptElement.cpp.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 14.10
- Google Chrome: through 40.0.2214.115
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary: 6.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary: 6.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus: 6.6.z
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary: 6.0
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/03/stable-channel-update.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0627.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72901
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2521-1
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=456059
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-12
- https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=189886&view=revision
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/03/stable-channel-update.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0627.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72901
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2521-1
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=456059
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