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high 7.5

CVE-2015-1272 json

Use-after-free vulnerability in the GPU process implementation in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 allows remote attackers to cause a deni…

published 2015-07-23 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-1413

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in the GPU process implementation in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the continued availability of a GPUChannelHost data structure during Blink shutdown, related to content/browser/gpu/browser_gpu_channel_host_factory.cc and content/renderer/render_thread_impl.cc.

Patch / fix

  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.8.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 44.0.2403.89-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1095

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1272

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 44.0.2403.89-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:1499

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 55.0.2883.75-3.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-1272 updated cvss 6.4

chromium-browser: Use-after-free related to unexpected GPU process termination in unspecified

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 44.0.2403.89-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 44.0.2403.89-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 44.0.2403.89-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1499

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

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Sources

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