CVE-2015-3336

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90 does not always ask the user before proceeding with CONTENT_SETTINGS_TYPE_FULLSCREEN and CONTENT_SETTINGS_TYPE_MOUSELOCK changes, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (UI disruption) by constructing a crafted HTML document containing JavaScript code with requestFullScreen and requestPointerLock calls, and arranging for the user to access this document with a file: URL.

Google Chrome before 42.0.2311.90 does not always ask the user before proceeding with CONTENT_SETTINGS_TYPE_FULLSCREEN and CONTENT_SETTINGS_TYPE_MOUSELOCK changes, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (UI disruption) by constructing a crafted HTML document containing JavaScript code with requestFullScreen and requestPointerLock calls, and arranging for the user to access this document with a file: URL.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-04-19 10:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html

Release Notes, Vendor Advisory

openSUSE-SU-2015:0748

Third Party Advisory

DSA-3238

Third Party Advisory

74227

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=455953

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

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