KLA11391 Use after free vulnerability in Google Chrome

Use afrer free vulnerability was found in Google Chrome’s. This vulnerability related to PDFium component. Malicious users can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code, cause denial of service.

Original advisories

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

Related products

Google-Chrome

CVE list

CVE-2018-17481 high

Solution

Update to the latest version. File with name old_chrome can be still detected after update. It caused by Google Chrome update policy which does not remove old versions when installing updates. Try to contact vendor for further delete instructions or ignore such kind of alerts at your own risk.

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Impacts

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

• SB

Security bypass. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing actions restricted by current security settings.

Affected Products

• Google Chrome for Windows, Mac, and Linux prior to 71.0.3578.98