Google Chrome up to 128.0.6613.84 Skia heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Google Chrome. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Skia. This manipulation causes heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-8198. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Google Chrome. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component Skia. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Heap buffer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 128.0.6613.113 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

The weakness was disclosed by Renan Rios. The advisory is shared at chromereleases.googleblog.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-8198. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/31/2024).

Upgrading to version 128.0.6613.113 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.4

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Chrome 128.0.6613.113

Timelineinfo

08/28/2024 🔍
08/28/2024 +0 days 🔍
03/12/2025 +196 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: google.com
Product: google.com

Advisory: chromereleases.googleblog.com
Researcher: Renan Rios
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-8198 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-8198
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-276037

Entryinfo

Created: 08/28/2024 22:48
Updated: 03/12/2025 11:45
Changes: 08/28/2024 22:48 (55), 08/29/2024 12:16 (1), 08/29/2024 15:31 (1), 08/31/2024 03:19 (20), 03/12/2025 11:45 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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