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CVE-2015-2238

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2521-1

Severity Score

7.8
*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google V8 before 4.1.0.21, as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76, allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via unknown vectors.

Múltiples vulnerabilidades no especificadas en Google V8 anterior a 4.1.0.21, utilizado en Google Chrome anterior a 41.0.2272.76, permiten a atacantes causar una denegación de servicio o posiblemente tener otro impacto a través de vectores desconocidos.

Several out-of-bounds write bugs were discovered in Skia. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. A use-after-free was discovered in the V8 bindings in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via renderer crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the sandboxed render process. Various other issues were also addressed.

*Credits: N/A
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:-
Exploitation
-
Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2015-03-08 CVE Reserved
  • 2015-03-09 CVE Published
  • 2024-08-06 CVE Updated
  • 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
CAPEC
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
Vendor Product Version Other Status
Vendor Product Version Other Status <-- --> Vendor Product Version Other Status
Canonical
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Ubuntu Linux
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14.04
Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "14.04"
lts
Affected
Canonical
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Ubuntu Linux
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14.10
Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "14.10"
-
Affected
Google
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Chrome
Search vendor "Google" for product "Chrome"
<= 40.0.2214.115
Search vendor "Google" for product "Chrome" and version " <= 40.0.2214.115"
-
Affected
Google
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V8
Search vendor "Google" for product "V8"
<= 4.1.0.20
Search vendor "Google" for product "V8" and version " <= 4.1.0.20"
-
Affected