CVE-2015-6581 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2015-6581?

CVE-2015-6581 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 3 Sep 2015. 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

Double free vulnerability in the opj_j2k_copy_default_tcp_and_create_tcd function in j2k.c in OpenJPEG before r3002, as used in PDFium in Google Chrome before 45.0.2454.85, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by triggering a memory-allocation failure.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-6581?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2015-6581?

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-2015-6581 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-6581 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6581, GHSA-gphr-q83r-f4gv, MGASA-2015-0398, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6581.