Use after free in WebAudio in Google Chrome prior to 119.0.6045.123 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a…

published 2023-11-08 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-58263

cvss: 8.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.0%; EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits: 0; none known

Use after free in WebAudio in Google Chrome prior to 119.0.6045.123 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 3

google chrome 119.0.6045.123

debian opensuse alpine

chromium Debian 12 119.0.6045.123-1~deb12u1
chromium Debian 14, Debian 13 119.0.6045.123-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5996

chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 119.0.6045.123-1.1
chromium Package Hub 15 SP5, Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.5 +1 more 119.0.6045.123-bp155.2.55.1
gn Package Hub 15 SP5, Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.5 +1 more 0.20231023-bp155.5.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13419-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13423-1 openSUSE-SU-2023:0368-1

qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.18 5.15.13-r11
qt5-qtwebengine Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +2 more 5.15.15-r7
qt6-qtwebengine Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +3 more 6.6.0-r5

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2023-5996

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Exploit prediction

1.99% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness

CWE-416 Use After Free

Technology feeds

Google Chrome rss critical rss

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com /2023/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
release-notes
crbug.com /1497859
permissions-required
debian.org /security/2023/dsa-5551
third-party-advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2MHLJRFWZNY6BFOW25Q4FEESVWZKS4C2/
mailing-list
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PHWLT3M2AQDFD7RNAM3NJMYUC5KHMO5V/
mailing-list
security.gentoo.org /glsa/202311-11
third-party-advisory
security.gentoo.org /glsa/202312-07
third-party-advisory
security.gentoo.org /glsa/202401-34

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-5996
NVD CVE-2023-5996

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Summary