CVE-2024-5842: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use after free in Browser UI in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.54 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 39 only; version 40 only
• Google Chrome: before 126.0.6478.54 (fixed in 126.0.6478.54)

Published 2024-06-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.