Buffer overflow in Google Chrome - CVE-2014-3157
Published: June 11, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41561
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3157
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Heap-based buffer overflow in the FFmpegVideoDecoder::GetVideoBuffer function in media/filters/ffmpeg_video_decoder.cc in Google Chrome before 35.0.1916.153 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging VideoFrame data structures that are too small for proper interaction with an underlying FFmpeg library.
Affected software
Google Chrome
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3157
Install update from vendor's website.
External References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/06/stable-channel-update.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58585
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59090
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60061
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60372
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2959
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67972
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=368980
- https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=268831&view=revision