Input validation error in Google products - CVE-2014-3169
Published: August 27, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41369
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3169
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Debian
SUSE
Google
SUSE
Affected software:
Debian Linux
Opensuse
Google Chrome
Debian Linux
Opensuse
Google Chrome
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Use-after-free vulnerability in core/dom/ContainerNode.cpp in the DOM implementation 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 script execution that occurs before notification of node removal. <a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html" target="_blank">CWE-416: Use After Free</a>
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3169
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/08/stable-channel-update_26.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00027.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60268
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60424
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61482
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3039
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69405
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030767
- https://crbug.com/387389
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95469
- https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=178976&view=revision