CVE-2015-5605

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-17

Description

The regular-expression implementation in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89, mishandles interrupts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted JavaScript code, as demonstrated by an error in garbage collection during allocation of a stack-overflow exception message.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 43.0.2357.134
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

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.securityfocus.com/bid/76007
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033031
https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git/+/c67cb287a901ddf03d4ae4dafcf431d09fd3e22c
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=469480
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=512110
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.securityfocus.com/bid/76007

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