Input validation error in Google Chrome - CVE-2014-3171

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Input validation error in Google Chrome - CVE-2014-3171

Published: August 27, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41371
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-2014-3171
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Google Chrome

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

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. <a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html" target="_blank">CWE-416: Use After Free</a>


How to mitigate CVE-2014-3171

Install update from vendor's website.

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