CVE-2015-6756 is a use-after-free vulnerability in the CPDFSDK_PageView implementation within PDFium, affecting Google Chrome versions prior to 46.0.2490.71. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service through heap memory corruption, or potentially achieve other unspecified impacts, by manipulating focused annotations in PDF documents. With a CVSS score of 6.8, it is a medium-severity vulnerability that can be exploited over a network with medium attack complexity, leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 45.0.2454.101CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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