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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2021-21143 Heap buffer overflow in Extensions

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2021-21143 Heap buffer overflow in Extensions

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/05/2021
Created
02/06/2021
Added
02/05/2021
Modified
01/09/2023

Description

Heap buffer overflow in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 88.0.4324.146 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted Chrome Extension.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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