CVE-2015-6758

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2015-10-13
CWE:
CWE-704
Bugzilla:
1271554: CVE-2015-6758 chromium-browser: Bad-cast in PDFium

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The CPDF_Document::GetPage function in fpdfapi/fpdf_parser/fpdf_parser_document.cpp in PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before 46.0.2490.71, does not properly perform a cast of a dictionary object, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document.

Find out more about CVE-2015-6758 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (chromium-browser) RHSA-2015:1912 2015-10-15

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