CVE-2024-7969

2024-08-2100:00:00

ubuntu.com

type confusion

google chrome

heap corruption

crafted html page

chromium

security vulnerability

CVSS3

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

AI Score

Confidence

High

JSON

Type Confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.84 allowed a
remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML
page. (Chromium security severity: High)

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