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CVE-2015-1240

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

gpu/blink/webgraphicscontext3d_impl.cc in the WebGL implementation in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted WebGL program that triggers a state inconsistency.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 14.10, 15.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Google Chrome: through 42.0.2311.60

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00040.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00024.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0816.html
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2570-1
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3238
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032209
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463599
• https://codereview.chromium.org/978193003
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201506-04
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00040.html

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