CVE-2023-1529 Memory corruption in Chrome

What is CVE-2023-1529?

CVE-2023-1529 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 21 Mar 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Out of bounds memory access in WebHID in Google Chrome prior to 111.0.5563.110 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a malicious HID device. (Chromium security severity: High)

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-1529?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2023-1529?

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-2023-1529 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-1529 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2023-1529, GHSA-64mf-xhgv-qwph, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-1529.