CVE-2019-5797: 
Google Chrome vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2019-5797 is a security vulnerability discovered in Google Chrome's DOMStorage component affecting versions prior to 73.0.3683.75. The vulnerability was identified as a double free condition that could potentially be exploited by remote attackers through a crafted HTML page (Chrome Blog, CVE Mitre).

The vulnerability is classified as a race condition in DOMStorage that could lead to a double free condition. This type of vulnerability occurs when the same memory location is freed twice, potentially leading to heap corruption. The issue was discovered and reported by Mark Brand of Google Project Zero on December 19, 2018 (Chrome Blog).

If successfully exploited, this vulnerability could allow remote attackers to potentially exploit heap corruption through a specially crafted HTML page, which could lead to arbitrary code execution or program crashes (CVE Mitre).

The vulnerability was patched in Google Chrome version 73.0.3683.75. Users and administrators are advised to update to this version or later to mitigate the risk. The fix was also backported to various Linux distributions including Debian and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Red Hat, Debian).