CVE-2015-1317

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2556-1

Posted Apr 7, 2015

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2556-1 - It was discovered that Chromium did not properly handle the interaction of IPC, the gamepad API and V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking the program. A buffer overflow was discovered in the GPU service. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, overflow, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2015-1233, CVE-2015-1234, CVE-2015-1317

SHA-256 | 04fcc500a7183b01d8d82044435d10de076fb3f8f0fe6c66be25b85ecd587925

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