CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-5842

Use After Free

Published: Jun 11, 2024 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Use after free in Browser UI in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.54 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.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 Google * 126.0.6478.54 (excluding)
Chromium-browser Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

References