PT-2015-1681 · Opera+5 · Opera+6

Published 2015-07-22 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2015-5605

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 44.0.2403.89 Opera (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the regular-expression implementation in Google V8, which mishandles interrupts. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash, via crafted JavaScript code. The error occurs during garbage collection when allocating a stack-overflow exception message.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 44.0.2403.89, update to version 44.0.2403.89 or later to resolve the issue. For Opera, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-17

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1729

BDU:2015-11027

CVE-2015-5605

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1287-1

RHSA-2015:1499

RHSA-2015_1499

USN-2677-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Google V8

Opera

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 139

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1270 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1280 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5605 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11332 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1276 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11331 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2677-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6582 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1729 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6583 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-10877 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-6580 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1284 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1296 · Security Note