CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-1242

7.5 HIGH Published 2015-04-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-04-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.10 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.04 • google v8 (<= 4.2.77.7) • google chrome (<= 42.0.2311.60) • debian debian linux 8.0

References