Type Confusion in Google Chromium - CVE-2021-30588
Published: July 20, 2021 / Updated: July 21, 2021
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 Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
qt5-qtwebengine
chromium
How to mitigate CVE-2021-30588
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
External References
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- Fedora 33 update for chromium
- Fedora 35 update for chromium
- Fedora 34 update for chromium
- Fedora EPEL 8 update for chromium
- Fedora 34 update for qt5-qtwebengine