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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-6162 Heap buffer overflow in WebGL

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-6162 Heap buffer overflow in WebGL

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/09/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/12/2019
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Improper deserialization in WebGL in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 68.0.3440.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

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