CVE-2013-6641 Use after free in n/a
Remote attackers can cause denial of service or potentially execute code via a use-after-free flaw in Chrome's Blink engine.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2013-6641?
CVE-2013-6641 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 16 Jan 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the FormAssociatedElement::formRemovedFromTree function in core/html/FormAssociatedElement.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 32.0.1700.76 on Windows and before 32.0.1700.77 on Mac OS X and Linux, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging improper handling of the past names map of a FORM element.
Weakness: CWE-416
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-6641?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Google Chrome, Opensuse Opensuse.
How do I fix CVE-2013-6641?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2013-6641 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-6641 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Chrome
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7qpj-m5pf-q5rf.