CVE-2015-6789 (GCVE-0-2015-6789)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-14 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:29
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Summary
Race condition in the MutationObserver implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 47.0.2526.80, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging unanticipated object deletion.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
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2015-12-08 00:00
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