Use after free in Tab Strip in Google Chrome prior to 91.0.4472.77 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_25.html | release notes vendor advisory |
| https://crbug.com/1184954 | third party advisory issue tracking exploit |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WKQDE3PWDKASAPSUJYMOQGL73L3YQRFS/ | vendor advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4DDW7HAHTS3SDVXBQUY4SURELO5D4X7R/ | vendor advisory |
| https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PM7MOYYHJSWLIFZ4TPJTD7MSA3HSSLV2/ | vendor advisory |