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CVE-2019-5797

Double Free

Published: Sep 29, 2022 | Modified: May 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5797
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html

Double free in DOMStorage in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Chrome Google * 73.0.3683.75 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary RedHat chromium-browser-0:73.0.3683.75-1.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 *

Potential Mitigations

References

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