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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-6151 Bad cast in DevTools

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-6151 Bad cast in DevTools

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/09/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/29/2019
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Bad cast in DevTools in Google Chrome on Win, Linux, Mac, Chrome OS prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

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