CVE-2022-2158 Use after free in Chrome
A remote attacker can exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page due to type confusion in V8, potentially executing arbitrary code.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-2158?
CVE-2022-2158 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, published on 28 Jul 2022. 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
Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 103.0.5060.53 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Weakness: CWE-416
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2158?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Fedoraproject Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome.
How do I fix CVE-2022-2158?
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-2022-2158 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2158 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as CLEANSTART-2024-RQ53038, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2158, GHSA-3qp3-ccr6-rf5c, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2158.