Zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome

Heap-based buffer overflow
CVE-2022-4135

Vulnerability details

Advisory: SB2022112504 - Remote code execution in Google Chrome

Vulnerable component: Google Chrome

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-4135

CVSSv3 score: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

CWE-ID: CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow

Description:

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted HTML content in GPU. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into opening it, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.

External links:

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_24.html