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CVE-2022-3038: Google Chromium Network Service Use-After-Free Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2023-03-30
• EPSS: 24.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-09-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Use after free in Network Service in Google Chrome prior to 105.0.5195.52 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 37
• Google Chrome: before 105.0.5195.52 — fixed in 105.0.5195.52

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 105.0.5195.52. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168596/Google-Chrome-103.0.5060.53-network-URLLoader-NotifyCompleted-Heap-Use-After-Free.html
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_30.html
• https://crbug.com/1340253
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4NMJURTG5RO3TGD7ZMIQ6Z4ZZ3SAVYE/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-23
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168596/Google-Chrome-103.0.5060.53-network-URLLoader-NotifyCompleted-Heap-Use-After-Free.html
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_30.html
• https://crbug.com/1340253
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T4NMJURTG5RO3TGD7ZMIQ6Z4ZZ3SAVYE/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-23
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-3038

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