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CVE-2024-9959

Publication date 15 October 2024

Last updated 23 October 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Use after free in DevTools in Google Chrome prior to 130.0.6723.58 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted Chrome Extension. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
chromium-browser 24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected

Notes

alexmurray

The Debian chromium source package is called chromium-browser in Ubuntu

mdeslaur

starting with Ubuntu 19.10, the chromium-browser package is just a script that installs the Chromium snap