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CVE-2021-30542

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use after free in Tab Strip in Google Chrome prior to 91.0.4472.77 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 33, 34, 35
• Google Chrome: before 91.0.4472.77 — fixed in 91.0.4472.77

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 91.0.4472.77. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_25.html
• https://crbug.com/1184954
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4DDW7HAHTS3SDVXBQUY4SURELO5D4X7R/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PM7MOYYHJSWLIFZ4TPJTD7MSA3HSSLV2/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WKQDE3PWDKASAPSUJYMOQGL73L3YQRFS/
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/05/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_25.html
• https://crbug.com/1184954
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4DDW7HAHTS3SDVXBQUY4SURELO5D4X7R/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PM7MOYYHJSWLIFZ4TPJTD7MSA3HSSLV2/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WKQDE3PWDKASAPSUJYMOQGL73L3YQRFS/

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