CVE-2015-5605: Google Chrome

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 43.0.2357.134
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only

Published 2015-07-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.