# CVE-2015-1223: Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in core/html/HTMLInputElement.cpp in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome befor

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2015-03-09 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in core/html/HTMLInputElement.cpp 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 extraneous change events, as demonstrated by events for invalid input or input to read-only fields, related to the initializeTypeInParsing and updateType functions.

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## References

- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2521-1
- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink.git/+/de1fee41e2c1bbfea7a564ad81e0b511a462fe0b
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72901
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-12
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0627.html
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/03/stable-channel-update.html
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=454231

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