CVE-2012-5120 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2012-5120?

CVE-2012-5120 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 7 Nov 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

Google V8 before 3.13.7.5, as used in Google Chrome before 23.0.1271.64, on 64-bit Linux platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that triggers an out-of-bounds access to an array.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5120?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Google Chrome, Google V8.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5120?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-5120 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2012-5120 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5120 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-wh6h-h7qw-43xw, UBUNTU-CVE-2012-5120.