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CVE-2021-4063 (GCVE-0-2021-4063)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-23 00:45 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:16
VLAI
Summary
Use after free in developer tools in Google Chrome prior to 96.0.4664.93 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Use after free
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/12/sta… x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/1273176 x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-25 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 96.0.4664.93 (custom)
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