CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-4055
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-12-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
Heap buffer overflow in extensions in Google Chrome prior to 96.0.4664.93 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted Chrome Extension.
Affected configurations
• google chrome (< 96.0.4664.93)
• fedoraproject fedora 34
• debian debian linux 10.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html Vendor Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1266510 Permissions Required
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-25 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046 Third Party Advisory
- https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html Vendor Advisory
- https://crbug.com/1266510 Permissions Required
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-25 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046 Third Party Advisory