CVE-2015-1242

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

CWE-843: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

The ReduceTransitionElementsKind function in hydrogen-check-elimination.cc in Google V8 before 4.2.77.8, as used in Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that leverages "type confusion" in the check-elimination optimization.

CWE-843: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-04-19 10:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2017-01-03 02:59:00

Affected Software

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)

14.04

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.10

14.10

Canonical Ubuntu Linux 15.04

15.04

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

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