Use after free in User Education 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 Chrome Extension or specific user interaction.
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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.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/2022/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html | release notes vendor advisory |
| https://crbug.com/1323239 | vendor advisory permissions required |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-25 | third party advisory vendor advisory |