CVE-2022-3318

Use after free in ChromeOS Notifications in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 106.0.5249.62 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to reboot Chrome OS to potentially exploit heap corruption via UI interaction. (Chromium security severity: Low)

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

• Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
• For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/125.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/130.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/131.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/494.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/495.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/496.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/666.html

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_27.html
• https://crbug.com/1318791