CVE-2024-2887 Memory corruption in Chrome

What is CVE-2024-2887?

CVE-2024-2887 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 26 Mar 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Type Confusion in WebAssembly in Google Chrome prior to 123.0.6312.86 allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Weakness: CWE-843

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-2887?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2024-2887?

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-2024-2887 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-2887 exists.

Public exploit code: 5 proofs of concept on GitHub.

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Sources

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

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-2887, GHSA-q75f-2pp5-9phj.