CVE-2015-1361

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Published 2015-01-27 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.8

Description

platform/image-decoders/ImageFrame.h in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 40.0.2214.91, does not initialize a variable that is used in calls to the Skia SkBitmap::setAlphaType function, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted HTML document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-1205.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"40.0.2214.85"}

References

CWEs

CWE-17

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.