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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2020-16038 Use after free in media

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2020-16038 Use after free in media

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/08/2021
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/19/2021
Modified
01/09/2023

Description

Use after free in media in Google Chrome on OS X prior to 87.0.4280.88 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

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