UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3188

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3188

    Published: 8 Oct 2014Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-3188
    Aliases:
    USN-2345-1

    Summary:

    Details: Google Chrome before 38.0.2125.101 and Chrome OS before 38.0.2125.101 do not properly handle the interaction of IPC and Google V8, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving JSON data, related to improper parsing of an escaped index by ParseJsonObject in json-parser.h.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3188, https://crbug.com/416449, https://code.google.com/p/v8/source/detail?r=24125, http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/10/stable-channel-update.html, http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/10/stable-channel-update-for-chrome-os.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2345-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3188

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: chromium-browser

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -38.0.2125.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1061

    Affected versions

    29.0.1547.65-0ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High