Out-of-bounds write in Google Chromium - CVE-2021-30632
Published: September 13, 2021 / Updated: October 22, 2021
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted HTML content in V8. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in-the-wild.
Affected software
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Gentoo Linux
Arch Linux
Fedora
chromium
How to mitigate CVE-2021-30632
Google Chrome - update to 93.0.4577.82
Microsoft Edge - update to 93.0.961.47
chromium - addressed in versions 94.0.4606.61-1.el8, 94.0.4606.61-1.fc33, 94.0.4606.61-1.fc34, 94.0.4606.61-1.fc35