CVE-2015-1227

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
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The DragImage::create function in platform/DragImage.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76, does not initialize memory for image drawing, which allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact by triggering a failed image decoding, as demonstrated by an image for which the default orientation cannot be used.

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=450389
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-12
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=189585&view=revision
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=189816&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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