CVE-2015-6792

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-12-24 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The MIDI subsystem in Google Chrome before 47.0.2526.106 does not properly handle the sending of data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors, related to midi_manager.cc, midi_manager_alsa.cc, and midi_manager_mac.cc, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8664.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 47.0.2526.80

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/12/stable-channel-update_15.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00030.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2665.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3456
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79348
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034491
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=564501
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=569486
https://codereview.chromium.org/1500153002
https://codereview.chromium.org/1508563003
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09

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