Heap-based buffer overflow in Google Chromium - CVE-2023-0138

Vulnerability identifier: #VU70953

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-2023-0138

CWE-ID: CWE-122

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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 libphonenumber. 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.

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

Update to version 109.0.5414.74.

Google Chromium - update to 109.0.5414.74
Microsoft Edge - addressed in versions 108.0.1462.83, 109.0.1518.49
Google Chrome - update to 109.0.5414.74
dev-qt/qtwebengine - update to 103.0.5060.53
www-client/microsoft-edge - update to 109.0.1518.61
www-client/chromium-bin - update to 109.0.5414.74
www-client/google-chrome - update to 109.0.5414.74
www-client/chromium - update to 109.0.5414.74-r1
chromium (Debian package) - update to 109.0.5414.74-2~deb11u1

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/1346675
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2023-0138

• Multiple vulnerabilities in Google Chrome
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Edge
• Debian update for chromium
• Gentoo update for Chromium, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge
• Gentoo update for QtWebEngine