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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2022-1876 Heap buffer overflow in DevTools

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2022-1876 Heap buffer overflow in DevTools

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/25/2022
Created
05/26/2022
Added
05/25/2022
Modified
01/09/2023

Description

Heap buffer overflow in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 102.0.5005.61 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

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