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CVE-2015-1258

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1258 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Google Chrome versions prior to 43.0.2357.65, stemming from an improperly configured libvpx library. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a negative size field via crafted VP9 video data, affecting Google Chrome and Debian-based systems. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector and low complexity, potentially leading to denial of service or other unspecified impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 42.0.2311.152CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0240 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: chromium-browser-0:43.0.2357.65-1.el6_6
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libvpx
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libvpx

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-1258Moderate

chromium-browser: Negative-size parameter in Libvpx.

May 19, 2015

References

googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2015/05/stable-channel-update_19.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-October/168803.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/166975.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167428.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00091.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00015.html
code.google.com / p/chromium/issues/detail
codereview.chromium.org / 1106303002
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201506-04
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3267
securityfocus.com / bid/74723
securitytracker.com / id/1032375