CVE-2024-7971
Description
A type confusion vulnerability was found in the Chromium web browser. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page.
Statement
Chromium is not shipped in any supported Red Hat offerings.
Mitigation
Until updated packages are released for Fedora and EPEL, consider temporarily swapping to an alternative web browser such as Firefox or severely restricting activity to sites you know well and trust.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Availability,Integrity,Confidentiality
Technical Impact: Read Memory; Modify Memory; Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands; DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart
When a memory buffer is accessed using the wrong type, it could read or write memory out of the bounds of the buffer, if the allocated buffer is smaller than the type that the code is attempting to access, leading to a crash and possibly code execution.
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