Buffer Overflow Affecting electron package, versions <18.3.8 >=19.0.0 <19.0.13
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.21% (60th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2978483
- published 10 Aug 2022
- disclosed 10 Aug 2022
- credit YU-CHANG CHEN, CHIH-YEN CHANG
How to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 18.3.8, 19.0.13 or higher.
Overview
electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow when changing the PDF layout confuses AddFindResult() and causes it to fail a DCHECK()
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CVSS Scores
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