Use After Free Affecting chromium package, versions [,56.0.2924.67)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.72% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410300
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed17 Feb 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Feb 2017

CVE-2017-5021  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 56.0.2924.67 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. A use after free in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page.

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