CVE Catalog

CVE-2015-1272

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability in the GPU process implementation in Google Chrome before version 44.0.2403.89 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the continued availability of a GPUChannelHost data structure during Blink shutdown.

Risk Assessment

Organizations may be exposed to attacks that lead to denial of service, potentially affecting the availability of services and applications relying on the Chrome browser.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update Google Chrome to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and reduce the risk of attacks.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the GPU process implementation in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the continued availability of a GPUChannelHost data structure during Blink shutdown, related to content/browser/gpu/browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc and content/renderer/render_thread_impl.cc.

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