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Publication date: 2025-11-10

Last updated on: 2025-11-13

Assigner: Chrome

Description

Use after free in Ozone in Google Chrome on Linux and ChromeOS prior to 142.0.7444.59 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit object corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium)

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Published

2025-11-10

Last Modified

2025-11-13

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2025-11-10

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-12438

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
google	chrome	to 142.0.7444.59 (exc)
google	chrome_os	*
linux	linux_kernel	*

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
CWE-416	The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is a use-after-free issue in the Ozone component of Google Chrome on Linux and ChromeOS versions prior to 142.0.7444.59. It allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit object corruption by crafting a malicious HTML page.

Impact Analysis

The vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause object corruption, which may lead to unexpected behavior, crashes, or potentially allow further exploitation of the system running the affected Chrome versions.

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