CVE Catalog

CVE-2014-3171

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability in the V8 bindings in Blink, used in Google Chrome before version 37.0.2062.94, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging improper use of HashMap add operations instead of HashMap set operations.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to disrupt application functionality, potentially leading to service unavailability or other unforeseen consequences.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Google Chrome to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor systems for potential attack attempts.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the V8 bindings in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 37.0.2062.94, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging improper use of HashMap add operations instead of HashMap set operations, related to bindings/core/v8/DOMWrapperMap.h and bindings/core/v8/SerializedScriptValue.cpp.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS