CVE-2015-6756 — Use After Free in Google Chrome

CWE-416 — Use After Free5 documents5 sources
Severity
6.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.0%
top 23.43%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Google Chrome
Timeline
PublishedOct 15
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CPDFSDK_PageView implementation in fpdfsdk/src/fsdk_mgr.cpp in PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before 46.0.2490.71, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging mishandling of a focused annotation in a PDF document.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDgoogle/chrome45.0.2454.101

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-vfv2-4jmx-x9vh: Use-after-free vulnerability in the CPDFSDK_PageView implementation in fpdfsdk/src/fsdk_mgr↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2015-6756: Use-after-free vulnerability in the CPDFSDK_PageView implementation in fpdfsdk/src/fsdk_mgr↗2015-10-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
chromium-browser: use-after-free in PDFium↗2015-10-13
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-6756 chromium-browser: use-after-free in PDFium↗2015-10-14
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