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FreeBSD: VID-3E01AAD2-680E-11EB-83E2-E09467587C17 (CVE-2021-21148): chromium -- heap buffer overflow in V8

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FreeBSD: VID-3E01AAD2-680E-11EB-83E2-E09467587C17 (CVE-2021-21148): chromium -- heap buffer overflow in V8

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/04/2021
Created
02/09/2021
Added
02/06/2021
Modified
05/03/2022

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From VID-3E01AAD2-680E-11EB-83E2-E09467587C17:

Chrome Releases reports:

[1170176] High CVE-2021-21148: Heap buffer overflow in V8.

Reported by Mattias Buelens on 2021-01-24. Google is aware of

reports that an exploit for CVE-2021-21148 exists in the wild.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-chromium

References

  • CVE-2021-21148

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