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CVE-2015-1228

• 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 RenderCounter::updateCounter function in core/rendering/RenderCounter.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76, does not force a relayout operation and consequently does not initialize memory for a data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequence.

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: 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=444707
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-12
• https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=188180&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=444707

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