CVE-2021-37972

HIGH 8.8CVE-2021-37972 · Published 08/10/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-37972 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting chrome (google).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 78.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 94.0.4606.54 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
chrome google	`< 94.0.4606.54`	`94.0.4606.54`

Description

Out of bounds read in libjpeg-turbo in Google Chrome prior to 94.0.4606.54 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

References

chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_21.html · Release Notes
crbug.com/1234259 · Exploit
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4DDW7HAHTS3SDVXBQUY4SURELO5D4X7R
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B7G7UQ57NOKHQBYIHNJAFKFVWOQ6ZNU6
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PM7MOYYHJSWLIFZ4TPJTD7MSA3HSSLV2
debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5046 · Third Party Advisory

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