Use-after-free vulnerability in the shared-timer implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging erroneous timer firing, related to ThreadTimers.cpp and Timer.cpp.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1299
Reference (s):
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/09/stable-channel-update.html
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=416362
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1153763005/
- https://codereview.chromium.org/956333002/
- https://codereview.chromium.org/959263002/