PT-2015-1937 · Opera+4 · Opera+5

Published 2015-08-29 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2015-1299

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 45.0.2454.85 Opera (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a use-after-free vulnerability in the shared-timer implementation in Blink. This vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other unspecified impacts by leveraging erroneous timer firing, related to ThreadTimers.cpp and Timer.cpp.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 45.0.2454.85, update to version 45.0.2454.85 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.

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1729

ALT-PU-2015-1756

BDU:2015-11283

CVE-2015-1299

DSA-3351-1

MGASA-2015-0356

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2015:1712

RHSA-2015_1712

USN-2735-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Blink

Google Chrome

Opera

Red Hat

Ubuntu

References · 2454

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0356 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2735-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1299 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1294 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1292 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1712.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1280 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1277 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1282 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1299 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1301 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-10877 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1293 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11027 · Security Note