CVE-2014-3188 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3188?

CVE-2014-3188 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 8 Oct 2014. 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 Chrome before 38.0.2125.101 and Chrome OS before 38.0.2125.101 do not properly handle the interaction of IPC and Google V8, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving JSON data, related to improper parsing of an escaped index by ParseJsonObject in json-parser.h.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3188?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Google Chrome, Google Chrome Os, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3188?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2014-3188 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3188 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-xrvv-5xmr-3grf, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3188.