CVE-2019-5797

high

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.0

Description

Double free in DOMStorage in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-46565 dos multiple verified

Google Security Research · 2019-03-19

Google Chrome < M73 - Double-Destruction Race in StoragePartitionService

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`73.0.3683.75-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`73.0.3683.75-1`
sid	Fixed	`73.0.3683.75-1`
forky	Fixed	`73.0.3683.75-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`73.0.3683.75-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`73.0.3683.75-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.