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Use After Free

CVE-2024-12694

High
9.4/10

Summary

Use after free in Compositing in Google Chrome versions prior to 131.0.6778.204 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • PASSIVE
  • NONE

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