CVE-2015-6756
Google Chrome PDFium Use-After-Free Heap Memory Corruption Vulnerability
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.
INFO
Published Date :
Oct. 15, 2015, 10:59 a.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 2:35 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
6.4
Exploitability Score :
8.6
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Source Update by [email protected]
Nov. 07, 2023
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Source Google Inc. Chrome -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Nov. 07, 2023
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference Chrome http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/10/stable-channel-update.html [No types assigned] Added Reference Chrome http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77071 [No types assigned] Added Reference Chrome http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3376 [No types assigned] Added Reference Chrome https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=507316 [No types assigned] Added Reference Chrome https://codereview.chromium.org/1332653002 [No types assigned] Added Reference Chrome https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09 [No types assigned] Added Reference Chrome http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033816 [No types assigned] Added Reference Chrome http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1912.html [No types assigned] Removed Reference Google Inc. https://codereview.chromium.org/1332653002 Removed Reference Google Inc. http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/10/stable-channel-update.html Removed Reference Google Inc. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=507316 Removed Reference Google Inc. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77071 Removed Reference Google Inc. https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09 Removed Reference Google Inc. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1912.html Removed Reference Google Inc. http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033816 Removed Reference Google Inc. http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3376 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Dec. 24, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3376 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Dec. 08, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1912.html [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033816 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Dec. 03, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Nov. 28, 2016
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77071 [No Types Assigned] -
Modified Analysis by [email protected]
Oct. 15, 2015
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Evaluator Description <a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/416.html">CWE-416: Use After Free</a> Added CPE Configuration Configuration 1 OR *cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:45.0.2454.101:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous) Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) Changed Reference Type http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/10/stable-channel-update.html No Types Assigned http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/10/stable-channel-update.html Advisory, Patch Added CWE NVD-CWE-Other -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Oct. 15, 2015
Action Type Old Value New Value
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Exploit Prediction
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2.15 }} 0.17%
score
0.87680
percentile