CVE-2021-30597 Use after free in Chrome

What is CVE-2021-30597?

CVE-2021-30597 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 26 Aug 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Use after free in Browser UI in Google Chrome on Chrome prior to 92.0.4515.131 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via physical access to the device.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-30597?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2021-30597?

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-2021-30597 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-30597 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-FY86673, DEBIAN-CVE-2021-30597, GHSA-gc8p-79hx-4cwf, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-30597.