Use-after-free in Google Chrome - CVE-2019-13720

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Use-after-free in Google Chrome - CVE-2019-13720

Published: November 1, 2019 / Updated: May 12, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU22474
CSH Severity: Critical
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-13720
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: The vulnerability is being exploited in the wild

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error when processing HTML content within the audio component. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into visiting it, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Note, this vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.


Affected software

Google Chrome
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Opensuse
SUSE Linux
Fedora
chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2019-13720

Install updates from vendor's website.

Google Chrome - update to 78.0.3904.87
chromium - update to 78.0.3904.87-1.fc31

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