CVE-2015-6757

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-10-15 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in content/browser/service_worker/embedded_worker_instance.cc in the ServiceWorker implementation in Google Chrome before 46.0.2490.71 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging object destruction in a callback.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 45.0.2454.101

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/10/stable-channel-update.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1912.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3376
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77071
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033816
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2770-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2770-2
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=529520
https://codereview.chromium.org/1327723005
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/10/stable-channel-update.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1912.html

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