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CVE-2021-30508 (GCVE-0-2021-30508)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-04 17:15 – Updated: 2024-08-03 22:32
VLAI
Summary
Heap buffer overflow in Media Feeds in Google Chrome prior to 90.0.4430.212 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to enable certain features in Chrome to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Heap buffer overflow
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/05/sta… x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/1195340 x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-06 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 90.0.4430.212 (custom)
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