UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5605

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5605

    Published: 22 Jul 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-5605
    Aliases:
    USN-2677-1

    Summary:

    Details: The regular-expression implementation in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89, mishandles interrupts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted JavaScript code, as demonstrated by an error in garbage collection during allocation of a stack-overflow exception message.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5605, 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-2015-5605

    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
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