CVE-2012-2857

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

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) DOM implementation 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, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

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 macosaffected
macos macos6.0affected
macos macos6.0.1affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"21.0.1180.59"}
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.