CVE-2015-1242
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-04-19 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 04:33
Severity ?
Summary
The ReduceTransitionElementsKind function in hydrogen-check-elimination.cc in Google V8 before 4.2.77.8, as used in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that leverages "type confusion" in the check-elimination optimization.
References
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00040.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00024.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0816.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2570-1
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3238
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032209
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=460917
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://codereview.chromium.org/1000893003
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://codereview.chromium.org/1019033004
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201506-04
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00040.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00024.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0816.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2570-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3238
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032209
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=460917
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://codereview.chromium.org/1000893003
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://codereview.chromium.org/1019033004
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201506-04
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