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CVE-2021-21206: Google Chromium Blink Use-After-Free Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2021-11-03
• EPSS: 9.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-04-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use after free in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 89.0.4389.128 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33, 34
• Google Chrome: before 89.0.4389.128 — fixed in 89.0.4389.128

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 89.0.4389.128. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/1196781
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EAJ42L4JFPBJATCZ7MOZQTUDGV4OEHHG/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U3GZ42MYPGD35V652ZPVPYYS7A7LVXVY/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VUZBGKGVZADNA3I24NVG7HAYYUTOSN5A/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-08
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/1196781
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EAJ42L4JFPBJATCZ7MOZQTUDGV4OEHHG/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U3GZ42MYPGD35V652ZPVPYYS7A7LVXVY/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VUZBGKGVZADNA3I24NVG7HAYYUTOSN5A/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202104-08

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