The wrap function in bindings/core/v8/custom/V8EventCustom.cpp in the V8 bindings in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 38.0.2125.101, has an erroneous fallback outcome for wrapper-selection failures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via vectors that trigger stopping a worker process that had been handling an Event object.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2014-3199 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Base Score | 6.8 |
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Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
Access Vector | Network |
Access Complexity | Medium |
Authentication | None |
Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
Integrity Impact | Partial |
Availability Impact | Partial |
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Platform | Errata | Release Date |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (chromium-browser) | RHSA-2014:1626 | 2014-10-14 |