🛡️ CVE-2024-3516 — chrome

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-787 NVD

6.5

CVSS Score

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Description

Heap buffer overflow in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 123.0.6312.122 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-3516 is classified as CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write. Data is written past the end or before the start of a buffer, corrupting whatever is stored there.

Affected software

CVE-2024-3516 is recorded against 2 packages.

chrome (fixed in 123.0.6312.122)
fedora

Timeline and source

Published on 10 April 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com
issues.chromium.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
chromereleases.googleblog.com
issues.chromium.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
lists.fedoraproject.org

CVE-2024-3516 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Debian

Details

Severity MEDIUM

CVSS Score 6.5

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE CWE-787

Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes

Source NVD

Published 2024-04-10

Updated 2026-08-20

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
chrome	—	123.0.6312.122
fedora	—	—

References

Release Notes https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_10.html

Exploit, Issue Tracking https://issues.chromium.org/issues/328859176

Mailing List https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5EW66LXDACTB5FCHLUPZOGD2KA2J62Q2/

Mailing List https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EVEJEW7UCSUSK2J2FYQRZZPI74P2D3JP/

Mailing List https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NDHNEFD76ORM7WBWAEZT6HSYDMZVIED4/

Release Notes https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2024/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_10.html

Exploit, Issue Tracking https://issues.chromium.org/issues/328859176

Mailing List https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5EW66LXDACTB5FCHLUPZOGD2KA2J62Q2/

Mailing List https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/EVEJEW7UCSUSK2J2FYQRZZPI74P2D3JP/

Mailing List https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NDHNEFD76ORM7WBWAEZT6HSYDMZVIED4/

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