CVE-2015-1218 Use after free in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service or potentially execute code by triggering use-after-free vulnerabilities in Chrome's DOM implementation via script element movement.
- 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-2015-1218?
CVE-2015-1218 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 9 Mar 2015. 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
Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger movement of a SCRIPT element to different documents, related to (1) the HTMLScriptElement::didMoveToNewDocument function in core/html/HTMLScriptElement.cpp and (2) the SVGScriptElement::didMoveToNewDocument function in core/svg/SVGScriptElement.cpp.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1218?
It affects 6 products.
Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, 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-2015-1218?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
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-2015-1218 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1218 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hhmv-3qjj-8m3c, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1218.