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CVE-2015-6777

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-12-06 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ContainerNode::notifyNodeInsertedInternal function in WebKit/Source/core/dom/ContainerNode.cpp in the DOM implementation in Google Chrome before 47.0.2526.73 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to DOMCharacterDataModified events for certain detached-subtree insertions.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 46.0.2490.86

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/12/stable-channel-update.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00016.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00017.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3415
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78416
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034298
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2825-1
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=544020
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1420653003/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/12/stable-channel-update.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00016.html

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