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CVE-2021-21155 (GCVE-0-2021-21155)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-22 21:20 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:01
VLAI
Summary
Heap buffer overflow in Tab Strip in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 88.0.4324.182 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.
CWE
  • Heap buffer overflow
References
URL Tags
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/02/sta… x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/1175500 x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-08 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Google Chrome Affected: unspecified , < 88.0.4324.182 (custom)
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