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CVE-2015-1290

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The Google V8 engine, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 and QtWebEngineCore in Qt before 5.5.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: before 44.0.2403.89 — fixed in 44.0.2403.89
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Qt: before 5.5.1 — fixed in 5.5.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 44.0.2403.89; Qt 5.5.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebengine.git/tree/dist/changes-5.5.1
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00116.html
• http://www.nsfocus.net/index.php?act=advisory&do=view&adv_id=80
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=505374
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1233453004
• http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtwebengine.git/tree/dist/changes-5.5.1
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00116.html
• http://www.nsfocus.net/index.php?act=advisory&do=view&adv_id=80
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=505374
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1233453004

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