UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1223

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1223

    Published: 8 Mar 2015Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-1223
    Aliases:
    USN-2521-1

    Summary:

    Details: Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in core/html/HTMLInputElement.cpp in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger extraneous change events, as demonstrated by events for invalid input or input to read-only fields, related to the initializeTypeInParsing and updateType functions.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1223, https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=454231, https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink.git/+/de1fee41e2c1bbfea7a564ad81e0b511a462fe0b, http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/03/stable-channel-update.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2521-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1223

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: chromium-browser

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -41.0.2272.76-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1076

    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
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