Type Confusion in Google Chromium - CVE-2021-30588

 

Type Confusion in Google Chromium - CVE-2021-30588

Published: July 20, 2021 / Updated: July 21, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU55126
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-30588
CWE-ID: CWE-843
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a type confusion error within the V8 component in Google Chrome. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted web page, trigger a type confusion error and crash the browser.


Affected software

Google Chromium
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
qt5-qtwebengine
chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2021-30588

Update to version 92.0.4515.107.

Google Chromium - update to 92.0.4515.107
Google Chrome - update to 92.0.4515.107
Microsoft Edge - update to 92.0.902.55
qt5-qtwebengine - update to 5.15.8-2.fc34
chromium - addressed in versions 93.0.4577.63-1.el8, 93.0.4577.63-1.fc33, 93.0.4577.63-1.fc34, 93.0.4577.63-1.fc35

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