Use After Free Affecting chromium package, versions [,96.0.4664.45)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.81% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-15353718
  • published26 Feb 2026
  • disclosed24 Feb 2026
  • creditSergei Glazunov

Introduced: 24 Feb 2026

CVE-2021-38011  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 96.0.4664.45 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via the cross-thread DOMArrayBufferView handling in the NativeIOFile::DoRead/DoWrite path in the Storage Foundation native I/O component. An attacker can exploit heap corruption by delivering a crafted HTML page that invokes the Storage Foundation NativeIO read/write operations.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1