UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1272

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1272

    Published: 22 Jul 2015Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-1272
    Aliases:
    USN-2677-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1272, http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2677-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1272

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: chromium-browser

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

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -44.0.2403.89-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1095

    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