Use After Free Affecting chromium package, versions [,89.0.4389.72)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2409556
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Mar 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-21179  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 89.0.4389.72 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use after free in Network Internals in Google Chrome on Linux prior to 89.0.4389.72 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

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