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Google Patches Several Chrome Flaws That Can Be Exploited via Malicious Extensions

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Aug
2021
Google Patches Several Chrome Flaws That Can Be Exploited via Malicious Extensions

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Researchers Leecraso and Guang Gong of the 360 Alpha Lab team at Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 have earned $20,000 for a high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-30590. Google described the issue as a heap buffer overflow in Bookmarks.

Leecraso told SecurityWeek that CVE-2021-30590 is a sandbox escape vulnerability that can be “exploited in combination with an extension or a compromised renderer.” An attacker can leverage the flaw to achieve remote code execution outside Chrome’s sandbox.

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