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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-6118 Use after free in Media Cache

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2018-6118 Use after free in Media Cache

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/27/2019
Created
07/03/2019
Added
07/02/2019
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

A double-eviction in the Incognito mode cache that lead to a user-after-free in cache in Google Chrome prior to 66.0.3359.139 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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