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Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CVE-2022-1483

Severity High
Score 8.8/10

Summary

Heap buffer overflow in WebGPU in Google Chrome prior to 101.0.4951.41 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

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

CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc().

Advisory Timeline

  • Published