CVE-2015-1220

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the GIFImageReader::parseData function in platform/image-decoders/gif/GIFImageReader.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted frame size in a GIF image.

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=437651
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-12
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=188423&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=437651

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