CVE-2021-30553 Use after free in Chrome

What is CVE-2021-30553?

CVE-2021-30553 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 15 Jun 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Use after free in Network service in Google Chrome prior to 91.0.4472.101 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-30553?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2021-30553?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2021-30553 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-30553 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as CLEANSTART-2024-SH80955, DEBIAN-CVE-2021-30553, GHSA-q87w-m784-6jm8, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-30553.