Use after free in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 83.0.4103.116 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted Chrome Extension.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://crbug.com/1092308 | issue tracking permissions required third party advisory |
| https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2020/06/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_22.html | vendor advisory |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-08 | third party advisory vendor advisory |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00040.html | vendor advisory broken link |