CVE-2012-2857 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2012-2857?

CVE-2012-2857 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Apple Iphone Os, published on 6 Aug 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) DOM implementation in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and Linux, and before 21.0.1180.60 on Windows and Chrome Frame, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-2857?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Iphone Os, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2012-2857?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-2857 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2012-2857 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2857 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2021-30762 Apple iOS WebKit Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2016-4657 Apple iOS Webkit Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-7286 Apple Multiple Products Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-grq7-vwg7-hvp3.