Vulnerabilities / CVE-2015-6792

critical

CVE-2015-6792

chromium-browser: Fixes from internal audits and fuzzing

Published Modified
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

The MIDI subsystem in Google Chrome before 47.0.2526.106 does not properly handle the sending of data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via unspecified vectors, related to midi_manager.cc, midi_manager_alsa.cc, and midi_manager_mac.cc, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8664.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 7chromium-browserno fix listed
debian 8chromium-browser48.0.2564.82-1~deb8u1
ubuntu 14.04chromium-browser47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1107
ubuntu 15.04chromium-browser47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1192
ubuntu 15.10chromium-browser47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1218

References

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