Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Debian Linux and Opensuse - CVE-2015-3336
Published: April 19, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40810
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-3336
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Debian
SUSE
SUSE
Affected software:
Debian Linux
Opensuse
Debian Linux
Opensuse
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2015-3336
Install update from vendor's website.