CVE-2015-1206 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1206?

CVE-2015-1206 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 6 Oct 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Google Chrome before M40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unpaged memory write and process crash) via a crafted MP4 file.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1206?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1206?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-1206 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1206 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2026-87491 Google Chromium V8 Out of Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-68pp-qpjg-xvph, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1206.