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Microsoft Edge Chromium: CVE-2022-0972 Use after free in Extensions

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Microsoft Edge Chromium: CVE-2022-0972 Use after free in Extensions

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/18/2022
Created
03/19/2022
Added
03/18/2022
Modified
01/17/2023

Description

Use after free in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 99.0.4844.74 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Solution(s)

  • microsoft-edge-upgrade-latest

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