Vulnerability Spotlight: Use-after-free condition in Google Chrome WebGPU

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. 

Cisco Talos recently discovered an exploitable use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome’s WebGPU standard.  

Google Chrome is a cross-platform web browser — and Chromium is the open-source version of the browser that both Google and other software developers use as the basis to build their browsers, as well. This specific vulnerability exists in WebGPU, which is a JavaScript API for processing accelerated 3-D graphics and other functions in the …

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