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Use After Free

CVE-2022-0099

High
8.8/10

Summary

Use after free in Sign-in in Google Chrome prior to 97.0.4692.71 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to perform specific user gestures to potentially exploit heap corruption via specific user gesture.

  • 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