CVE-2015-1299

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the shared-timer implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging erroneous timer firing, related to ThreadTimers.cpp and Timer.cpp.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 44.0.2403

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/09/stable-channel-update.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00013.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1712.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3351
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033472
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=416362
https://codereview.chromium.org/1153763005/
https://codereview.chromium.org/956333002/
https://codereview.chromium.org/959263002/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/09/stable-channel-update.html

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