Use After Free Affecting chromium package, versions <88.0.4324.182-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.64% (79th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-CHROMIUM-1075494
- published 17 Feb 2021
- disclosed 22 Feb 2021
Introduced: 17 Feb 2021
CVE-2021-21157 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
chromium
to version 88.0.4324.182-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium
package and not the chromium
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:unstable
relevant fixed versions and status.
Use after free in Web Sockets in Google Chrome on Linux prior to 88.0.4324.182 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-21157
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BI6ZIJQYP5DFMYVX4J5OGOU2NQLEZ3SB/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FE5SIKEVYTMDCC5OSXGOM2KRPYLHYMQX/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-08
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_16.html
- https://crbug.com/1170657
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BI6ZIJQYP5DFMYVX4J5OGOU2NQLEZ3SB/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FE5SIKEVYTMDCC5OSXGOM2KRPYLHYMQX/