CVE-2012-2859

high
Published 2012-08-06 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.57 on Linux does not properly handle tabs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors.

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

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

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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