Use-after-free vulnerability in the element wrapper in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 17.0.963.65, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
| Link | Tags |
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| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14967 | signature third party advisory vdb entry |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026759 | third party advisory vdb entry |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/48527 | third party advisory not applicable |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/48265 | third party advisory not applicable |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/48419 | third party advisory not applicable |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00012.html | vendor advisory mailing list third party advisory |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73642 | third party advisory vdb entry |
| http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=105867 | vendor advisory exploit |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52271 | third party advisory vdb entry |
| http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201203-19.xml | third party advisory vendor advisory |
| http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/03/chrome-stable-update.html | release notes vendor advisory |