CVE-2015-1221 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1221?

CVE-2015-1221 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Google Chrome, 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

Use-after-free vulnerability in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging incorrect ordering of operations in the Web SQL Database thread relative to Blink's main thread, related to the shutdown function in web/WebKit.cpp.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1221?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1221?

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-2015-1221 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1221 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-vm3f-p9xp-8hvv, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1221.