CVE-2012-2876 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability within the SSE2 optimization functionality of Google Chrome versions prior to 22.0.1229.79, also affecting related OpenSUSE Chrome packages. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity, and could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation (KEV: No) and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB: None), the vulnerability has garnered some community attention with one mention and one media article, suggesting it was noted by security researchers at the time.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
12.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 22.0.1229.78CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
22.0.1229.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
22.0.1229.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:22.0.1229.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.