CVE-2014-3171

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the V8 bindings in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 37.0.2062.94, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging improper use of HashMap add operations instead of HashMap set operations, related to bindings/core/v8/DOMWrapperMap.h and bindings/core/v8/SerializedScriptValue.cpp.

7.5

CVSS

Severity: High

CVSS 2.0 •

EPSS 1.78% Top 20%

Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory debian.org

Affected: n/a n/a

References

Link	Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95471	vdb entry
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/08/stable-channel-update_26.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69406	vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/60424	third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/61482	third party advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml	vendor advisory
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=178823&view=revision
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00027.html	vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/60268	third party advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030767	vdb entry
https://crbug.com/390928
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3039	vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2014-3171?: CVE-2014-3171 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2014-3171?: To fix CVE-2014-3171, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2014-3171 being actively exploited in the wild?: It is possible that CVE-2014-3171 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~2% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.

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