CVE-2015-1277

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the accessibility implementation in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging lack of certain validity checks for accessibility-tree data structures.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: through 43.0.2357.134
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus: 6.7z
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary: 6.0

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1499.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3315
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75973
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033031
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=479743
https://codereview.chromium.org/1144363004/
https://codereview.chromium.org/1151393006/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html

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