CVE-2021-21140

Publication date 9 February 2021

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.8 · Medium

Score breakdown

Uninitialized use in USB in Google Chrome prior to 88.0.4324.96 allowed a local attacker to potentially perform out of bounds memory access via via a USB device.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
chromium-browser 20.10 groovy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 89.0.4389.82-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

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

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.8 · Medium
Attack vector Physical
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H