Use after free in assistant in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 106.0.5249.62 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to potentially perform a sandbox escape via specific UI gestures. (Chromium security severity: Medium)
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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
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https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_27.html | release notes vendor advisory |
https://crbug.com/1348415 | issue tracking exploit vendor advisory |