CVE-2021-37998 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2021-37998 at MITRE

Description

Use after free in Garbage Collection in Google Chrome prior to 95.0.4638.69 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	8.8
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1192184 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2021:1462-1, published Mon Nov 8 21:54:47 2021
openSUSE-SU-2022:0047-1, published Mon Feb 21 22:39:47 2022
openSUSE-SU-2022:0070-1, published Thu Mar 3 18:39:46 2022
openSUSE-SU-2022:0110-1, published Fri Apr 8 22:41:06 2022

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3	`chromedriver >= 95.0.4638.69-bp153.2.40.3` `chromium >= 95.0.4638.69-bp153.2.40.3` `nodejs-electron >= 16.0.9-bp153.2.1` `nodejs-electron-devel >= 16.0.9-bp153.2.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-1462 openSUSE-2022-70
openSUSE Leap 15.2	`chromedriver >= 95.0.4638.69-lp152.2.138.1` `chromium >= 95.0.4638.69-lp152.2.138.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-1462
openSUSE Leap 15.3	`chromedriver >= 95.0.4638.69-bp153.2.40.3` `chromium >= 95.0.4638.69-bp153.2.40.3` `nodejs-electron >= 16.0.9-bp153.2.1` `nodejs-electron-devel >= 16.0.9-bp153.2.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2021-1462 openSUSE-2022-70
openSUSE Leap 15.3 NonFree	`opera >= 83.0.4254.27-lp153.2.33.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-47
openSUSE Leap 15.4	`chromium >= 101.0.4951.64-bp154.1.2`	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.4 GA chromium-101.0.4951.64-bp154.1.2
openSUSE Leap 15.4 NonFree	`opera >= 85.0.4341.28-lp154.2.5.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2022-110
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`chromedriver >= 95.0.4638.69-1.1` `chromium >= 95.0.4638.69-1.1` `nodejs-electron >= 13.6.2-1.1` `ungoogled-chromium >= 113.0.5672.92-1.1` `ungoogled-chromium-chromedriver >= 113.0.5672.92-1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11604 openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-11656 openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-12948

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s)	Source package	State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3	chromium	Released
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3	nodejs-electron	Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sat Oct 30 21:30:16 2021
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 16:59:12 2025