Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <95.0.4638.69-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-CHROMIUMBROWSER-1910573
- published 3 Nov 2021
- disclosed 23 Nov 2021
Introduced: 3 Nov 2021
CVE-2021-38001 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 chromium-browser to version 95.0.4638.69-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 95.0.4638.69 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-38001
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_28.html
- https://crbug.com/1260577
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/
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