# CVE-2015-6757: Use-after-free vulnerability in content/browser/service\_worker/embedded\_worker\_instance.cc in the ServiceWorker implementation in Google Chr

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2015-10-15 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in content/browser/service_worker/embedded_worker_instance.cc in the ServiceWorker implementation in Google Chrome before 46.0.2490.71 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging object destruction in a callback.

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## References

- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=529520
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1327723005
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/10/stable-channel-update.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77071
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3376
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033816
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2770-1
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1912.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2770-2

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