High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 21, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-0972

Description

Use after free in Extensions in Google Chrome prior to 99.0.4844.74 allowed an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

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Affected products

Google/Chromellm-fuzzy2 versions
<99.0.4844.74+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <99.0.4844.74
- (no CPE)range: unspecified
osv-coords3 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3 pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/suse/chromium&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP3
< 99.0.4844.74-bp153.2.69.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 99.0.4844.74-bp153.2.69.1
- (no CPE)range: < 99.0.4844.74-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 99.0.4844.74-bp153.2.69.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

crbug.com/1301320nvdExploitIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_15.htmlnvdRelease NotesVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-25nvdThird Party Advisory

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