CVE-2015-1224

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-17

Description

The VpxVideoDecoder::VpxDecode function in media/filters/vpx_video_decoder.cc in the vpxdecoder implementation in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76 does not ensure that alpha-plane dimensions are identical to image dimensions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted VPx video data.

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=449958
https://codereview.chromium.org/858303002
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-12
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=449958

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