CVE-2024-5839

2024-06-1100:00:00

ubuntu.com

google chrome

memory allocator

heap corruption

html page

remote attack

chromium

ubuntu

debian

snap

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

21.9%

JSON

Inappropriate Implementation in Memory Allocator in Google Chrome prior to
126.0.6478.54 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap
corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Notes

Author	Note
alexmurray	The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in Ubuntu
mdeslaur	starting with Ubuntu 19.10, the chromium-browser package is just a script that installs the Chromium snap