CVE-2023-1217 Memory corruption in Chrome
A stack buffer overflow in Chrome's crash reporting allows attackers to read sensitive process memory via a crafted HTML page.
- 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-2023-1217?
CVE-2023-1217 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 7 Mar 2023. 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
Stack buffer overflow in Crash reporting in Google Chrome on Windows prior to 111.0.5563.64 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)
Weakness: CWE-787
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-1217?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Chrome.
How do I fix CVE-2023-1217?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2023-1217 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-1217 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Chrome
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2023-1217, GHSA-f282-xv35-jqp9.