CVE-2014-3199 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Google Chrome by triggering a worker process stop via specific event handling vectors.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2014-3199?

CVE-2014-3199 is a medium-severity denial of service 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

The wrap function in bindings/core/v8/custom/V8EventCustom.cpp in the V8 bindings in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 38.0.2125.101, has an erroneous fallback outcome for wrapper-selection failures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors that trigger stopping a worker process that had been handling an Event object.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3199?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Google Chrome, 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-2014-3199?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-3199 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3199 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-w9mh-2q5f-prgq, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3199.

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