vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-5187

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 28, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Use after free in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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