Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU38891

Double Free in Debian Linux and Google Chrome - CVE-2015-1207

Published: June 6, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU38891

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1207

CWE-ID: CWE-415

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Double-free vulnerability in libavformat/mov.c in FFMPEG in Google Chrome 41.0.2251.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted .m4a file.

Affected software

Debian Linux
Google Chrome

How to mitigate CVE-2015-1207

Install update from vendor's website.

External References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=444539
https://gist.github.com/bittorrent3389/8fee7cdaa73d1d351ee9
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00005.html

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