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Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <6.1.10 >=7.0.0 <7.2.2 >=8.0.0-beta.1 <8.2.1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-565709
  • published 15 Apr 2020
  • disclosed 8 Apr 2020
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 8 Apr 2020

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How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 6.1.10, 7.2.2, 8.2.1 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 Use After Free. The rendering_orphan_handlers_ and deletable_orphan_handlers_ handlers can hold references to the context after BaseAudioContext is destroyed.

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Snyk

Recommended
6.8 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High