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CVE-2015-8479

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-12-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the AudioOutputDevice::OnDeviceAuthorized function in media/audio/audio_output_device.cc in Google Chrome before 47.0.2526.73 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering access to an unauthorized audio output device.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 46.0.2490.86

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/12/stable-channel-update.html
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=535605
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/12/stable-channel-update.html
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=535605

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