A Javascript reentrancy issues that caused a use-after-free in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 69.0.3497.81 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.
Weakness
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | * | 69.0.3497.81 (excluding) | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary | RedHat | chromium-browser-0:69.0.3497.81-1.el6_10 | * |
| Chromium-browser | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Chromium-browser | Ubuntu | cosmic | * |
| Chromium-browser | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Chromium-browser | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Chromium-browser | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Chromium-browser | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
| Oxide-qt | Ubuntu | esm-infra/xenial | * |
| Oxide-qt | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Oxide-qt | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
Potential Mitigations
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105215
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2666
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://crbug.com/867776
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-10
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4289
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105215
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2666
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
- https://crbug.com/867776
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-10
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4289