CVE-2021-21219 Information disclosure in Chrome

What is CVE-2021-21219?

CVE-2021-21219 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 26 Apr 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Uninitialized data in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 90.0.4430.72 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted PDF file.

Weakness: CWE-252

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-21219?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2021-21219?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2021-21219 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-21219 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as CLEANSTART-2024-RI66638, DEBIAN-CVE-2021-21219, GHSA-wjj4-2fj2-c72p, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-21219.