Google Chrome up to 126.0.6478.53 Tab Strip heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in Google Chrome up to 126.0.6478.53. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component Tab Strip. The manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-5844. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Google Chrome up to 126.0.6478.53. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Tab Strip. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Heap buffer overflow in Tab Strip in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.54 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

It is possible to read the advisory at chromereleases.googleblog.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-5844 since 06/11/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/07/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 232000 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-5844), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 126.0.6478.54 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (232000). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Web Browser

Vendor

• Google

Name

• Chrome

Version

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License

• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.google.com/
• Product: https://www.google.com/chrome/

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