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CVE-2021-38008

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-12-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use after free in media in Google Chrome prior to 96.0.4664.45 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0, 11.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 34
• Google Chrome: before 96.0.4664.45 — fixed in 96.0.4664.45

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 96.0.4664.45. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/1263620
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1398
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/1263620
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3W46HRT2UVHWSLZB6JZHQF6JNQWKV744/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2021-1398

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