CVE-2022-2623 Use after free in Chrome

What is CVE-2022-2623?

CVE-2022-2623 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 12 Aug 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

Use after free in Offline in Google Chrome on Android prior to 104.0.5112.79 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific user interactions to potentially exploit heap corruption via specific UI interactions.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2623?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2022-2623?

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-2022-2623 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2623 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2623, GHSA-6ffw-v5jw-v335, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2623.