CVE-2015-1221

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% 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 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 by leveraging incorrect ordering of operations in the Web SQL Database thread relative to Blink's main thread, related to the shutdown function in web/WebKit.cpp.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 40.0.2214.115

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=455368
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-12
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=190021&view=revision
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=190035&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

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