VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2852

medium
Published 2012-08-06 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

The PDF functionality in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and Linux, and before 21.0.1180.60 on Windows and Chrome Frame, does not properly handle object linkage, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.

Predictions

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

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
linux linux-kernelnot-affected
macos macosnot-affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"21.0.1180.56"}
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.0
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.1
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.2
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.31
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.32
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.33
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.34
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.35
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.36
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.37
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.38
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.39
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.41
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.46
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.47
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.48
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.49
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.50
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.51
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.52
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.53
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.54
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.55
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.56
gcp googlechrome21.0.1180.57
gcp googleframe-

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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