CVE-2015-1251

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the SpeechRecognitionClient implementation in the Speech subsystem in Google Chrome before 43.0.2357.65 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: through 42.0.2311.152

References

http://blog.skylined.nl/20161123001.html
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/05/stable-channel-update_19.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00091.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00015.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Nov/136
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3267
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539824/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74723
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032375
http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-15-236/
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=481015
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201506-04

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