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Heap buffer overflow in fingerprint recognition in Google...

High severity Unreviewed Published Dec 24, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 3, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Heap buffer overflow in fingerprint recognition in Google Chrome on ChromeOS prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised a WebUI renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 23, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 24, 2021
Last updated Feb 3, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(79th percentile)

Weaknesses

Out-of-bounds Write

The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2021-38013

GHSA ID

GHSA-w94x-w892-3pg7

Source code

No known source code

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