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Use After Free in atom-shell

CVE-2022-3305

  • atom-shell
  • chromium
  • chromiumembeddedframework.runtime
  • electron
  • electron-nightly
  • electron-prebuilt
  • org.webjars.npm:electron
  • org.webjars.npm:electron-prebuilt
High
8.8/10

Summary

Use after free in survey in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 106.0.5249.62 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. This has the same fix as CVE-2022-3306.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Use-after-free (UaF) vulnerability occurs when the application is using a pointer to memory that has been freed. Any attempt to read/write to a buffer after it is de-allocated allows memory corruption, sensitive information exposure, and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published