Heap-based buffer overflow in Google Chromium - CVE-2022-1876

 

Heap-based buffer overflow in Google Chromium - CVE-2022-1876

Published: May 24, 2022 / Updated: May 31, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU63619
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1876
CWE-ID: CWE-122
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 boundary error when processing untrusted HTML content in DevTools. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and crash the browser.


Affected software

Google Chromium
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
chromium (Debian package)
www-client/google-chrome
chromium
dev-qt/qtwebengine
www-client/chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2022-1876

Update to version 102.0.5005.61.

Google Chromium - update to 102.0.5005.61
Google Chrome - update to 102.0.5005.61
chromium (Debian package) - update to 102.0.5005.61-1~deb11u1
Microsoft Edge - update to 102.0.1245.30
www-client/google-chrome - update to 101.0.1210.47
chromium - addressed in versions 102.0.5005.115-1.el7, 102.0.5005.115-1.el8, 102.0.5005.115-1.fc35, 102.0.5005.115-1.fc36, 102.0.5005.115-2.el9
dev-qt/qtwebengine - update to 103.0.5060.53
www-client/chromium - update to 103.0.5060.53

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