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Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package chromium-browser  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-CHROMIUMBROWSER-1016622
  • published8 Oct 2020
  • disclosed3 Nov 2020
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Introduced: 8 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-15972  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

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.

Use after free in audio in Google Chrome prior to 86.0.4240.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

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