Use After Free Affecting chromium package, versions [,53.0.2785.103)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.98% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410558
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Aug 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Aug 2016

CVE-2016-5142  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 53.0.2785.103 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. The Web Cryptography API (aka WebCrypto) implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, does not properly copy data buffers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code, related to NormalizeAlgorithm.cpp and SubtleCrypto.cpp.

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