CVE-2015-1227 Information

Description

The DragImage::create function in platform/DragImage.cpp in Blink as used in Google Chrome before 41.0.2272.76 does not initialize memory for image drawing which allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact by triggering a failed image decoding as demonstrated by an image for which the default orientation cannot be used.

Reference

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/03/stable-channel-update.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0627.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72901 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2521-1 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=450389 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201503-12 https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=189585&view=revision https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink?revision=189816&view=revision