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CVE-2015-5605 json

The regular-expression implementation in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89, mishandles interrupts, which allows remot…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-5559

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The regular-expression implementation in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 44.0.2403.89, mishandles interrupts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted JavaScript code, as demonstrated by an error in garbage collection during allocation of a stack-overflow exception message.

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-2015-5605

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

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2015-5605 updated cvss 4.3

chromium-browser: v8 denial of service

  • 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

1.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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