FKIE_CVE-2021-4062
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-12-23 01:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 04:18
Severity
Summary
Heap buffer overflow in BFCache in Google Chrome prior to 96.0.4664.93 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| chrome | * | ||
| fedoraproject | fedora | 34 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 10.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 11.0 |
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