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CVE-2015-1220

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1220 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the GIF image parsing component of Blink, affecting Google Chrome and related products from Canonical and Red Hat. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially other unspecified impacts by crafting a malicious GIF image with an altered frame size. With a CVSS score of 6.8, it has a medium attack complexity and could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.6.zCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_supplementary_eus:6.6.z:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation_supplementary:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0186 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: chromium-browser-0:41.0.2272.76-1.el6_6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-1220Important

chromium-browser: Use-after-free in gif decoder

Mar 3, 2015

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2015/03/stable-channel-update.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0627.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201503-12
src.chromium.org / viewvc/blink
securityfocus.com / bid/72901
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2521-1