CVE-2013-6641: google chrome Use After Free

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2013-6641 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Use After Free vulnerability in google chrome. EPSS estimates a 1.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 16-01-2014
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the FormAssociatedElement::formRemovedFromTree function in core/html/FormAssociatedElement.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 32.0.1700.76 on Windows and before 32.0.1700.77 on Mac OS X and Linux, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging improper handling of the past names map of a FORM element.

• CWE-416Use After FreeThe product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.