CVE-2015-8480 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8480?

CVE-2015-8480 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 6 Dec 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

The VideoFramePool::PoolImpl::CreateFrame function in media/base/video_frame_pool.cc in Google Chrome before 47.0.2526.73 does not initialize memory for a video-frame data structure, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging improper interaction with the vp3_h_loop_filter_c function in libavcodec/vp3dsp.c in FFmpeg.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8480?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8480?

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-2015-8480 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8480 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-3h32-4mhh-8v2f, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8480.