CVE-2021-4055

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 8.8 High

Status

Modified - chrome-cve-admin@google.com

Published

2021-12-23

Last modified

2024-08-03

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Fedora (Fedoraproject)
• Chrome (Google)

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/1266510
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF…
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-25
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046