CVE-2015-1218: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger movement of a SCRIPT element to different documents, related to (1) the HTMLScriptElement::didMoveToNewDocument function in core/html/HTMLScriptElement.cpp and (2) the SVGScriptElement::didMoveToNewDocument function in core/svg/SVGScriptElement.cpp.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
• Google Chrome: up to and including 40.0.2214.115
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus: version 6.6.z only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary: version 6.0 only

Published 2015-03-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.