CVE-2015-5605

Google Chrome < 44.0.2403.89 - Denial of Service via Regular Expression Interrupt Handling

Title source: llm

Description

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 (8)

Core 8

Core References

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=512110

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76007

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8.git/+/c67cb287a901ddf03d4ae4dafcf431d09fd3e22c

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1499.html

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00038.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033031

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=469480

Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/07/stable-channel-update_21.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0148

EPSS Percentile 81.2%

Details

CWE

CWE-17

Status published

Products (3)

google/chrome < 43.0.2357.134

opensuse/opensuse 13.1

opensuse/opensuse 13.2

Published Jul 23, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026