Google Chrome before 24.0.1312.52 on Mac OS X does not use an appropriate sandboxing approach for worker processes, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Google Chrome Releases reports :

[162494] High CVE-2012-5145: Use-after-free in SVG layout. Credit to Atte Kettunen of OUSPG.

[165622] High CVE-2012-5146: Same origin policy bypass with malformed URL. Credit to Erling A Ellingsen and Subodh Iyengar, both of Facebook.

[165864] High CVE-2012-5147: Use-after-free in DOM handling. Credit to Jose A. Vazquez.

[167122] Medium CVE-2012-5148: Missing filename sanitization in hyphenation support. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Justin Schuh).

[166795] High CVE-2012-5149: Integer overflow in audio IPC handling.
Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Evans).

[165601] High CVE-2012-5150: Use-after-free when seeking video. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

[165538] High CVE-2012-5151: Integer overflow in PDF JavaScript.
Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team.

[165430] Medium CVE-2012-5152: Out-of-bounds read when seeking video.
Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno).

[164565] High CVE-2012-5153: Out-of-bounds stack access in v8. Credit to Andreas Rossberg of the Chromium development community.

[Mac only] [163208] Medium CVE-2012-5155: Missing Mac sandbox for worker processes. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Julien Tinnes).

[162778] High CVE-2012-5156: Use-after-free in PDF fields. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team.

[162776] [162156] Medium CVE-2012-5157: Out-of-bounds reads in PDF image handling. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team.

[162153] High CVE-2013-0828: Bad cast in PDF root handling. Credit to Mateusz Jurczyk, with contribution from Gynvael Coldwind, both of Google Security Team.

[162114] High CVE-2013-0829: Corruption of database metadata leading to incorrect file access. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Juri Aedla).

[161836] Low CVE-2013-0831: Possible path traversal from extension process. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Tom Sepez).

[160380] Medium CVE-2013-0832: Use-after-free with printing. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).

[154485] Medium CVE-2013-0833: Out-of-bounds read with printing.
Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).

[154283] Medium CVE-2013-0834: Out-of-bounds read with glyph handling.
Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).

[152921] Low CVE-2013-0835: Browser crash with geolocation. Credit to Arthur Gerkis.

[150545] High CVE-2013-0836: Crash in v8 garbage collection. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Cris Neckar).

[145363] Medium CVE-2013-0837: Crash in extension tab handling. Credit to Tom Nielsen.

[Linux only] [143859] Low CVE-2013-0838: Tighten permissions on shared memory segments. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Chris Palmer).

Versions of Google Chrome earlier than 24.0.1312.52 are potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - Use-after-free errors exist related to SVG layout, DOM handling, video seeking, PDF fields and printing. (CVE-2012-5145, CVE-2012-5147, CVE-2012-5150, CVE-2012-5156, CVE-2013-0832)

  - An error related to malformed URLs can allow a Same Origin Policy (SOP) bypass, thereby allowing cross-site scripting attacks. (CVE-2012-5146)

  - A user-input validation error exists related to filenames and hyphenation support. (CVE-2012-5148)

  - Integer overflow errors exist related to audio IPC handling, PDF JavaScript and shared memory allocation. (CVE-2012-5149, CVE-2012-5151, CVE-2012-5154)

  - Out-of-bounds read errors exist related to video seeking, PDF image handling, printing and glyph handling. (CVE-2012-5152, CVE-2012-5157, CVE-2012-0833, CVE-2012-0834)

  - An out-of-bounds stack access error exists in the v8 JavaScript engine. (CVE-2012-5153)

  - A casting error exists related to PDF 'root' handling. (CVE-2013-0828)

  - An unspecified error exists that can corrupt database metadata leading to incorrect file access. (CVE-2013-0829)

  - An error exists related to IPC and 'NUL' termination. (CVE-2013-0830)

  - An error exists related to extensions that may allow improper path traversals. (CVE-2013-0831)

  - An unspecified error exists related to geolocation. (CVE-2013-0835)

  - An unspecified error exists related to garbage collection in the v8 JavaScript engine. (CVE-2013-0836)

  - An unspecified error exists related to extension tab handling. (CVE-2013-0837)

  - The bundled version of Adobe Flash Player contains flaws that can lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2013-0630)
Successful exploitation of some of these issues could lead to an application crash or even allow arbitrary code execution, subject to the user's privileges.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
63469	FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (46bd747b-5b84-11e2-b06d-00262d5ed8ee)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
800917	Google Chrome < 24.0.1312.52 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Log Correlation Engine	Web Clients	high

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CVE-2012-5155

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