CVE-2024-0808: 
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2024-0808 is a high-severity security vulnerability discovered in Google Chrome's WebUI component. The vulnerability was identified as an integer underflow issue that could potentially lead to heap corruption when processing malicious files. This vulnerability affects Google Chrome versions prior to 121.0.6167.85 (Chrome Release, NVD).

The vulnerability is classified as an Integer Underflow (CWE-191) with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating a high-severity issue. The vulnerability vector is CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, which suggests that it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, requires no privileges or user interaction, and can result in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability (NVD).

The vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption through a malicious file, which could lead to arbitrary code execution or system compromise. Given the CRITICAL CVSS score, successful exploitation could result in complete system compromise with high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system (NVD).

Google has released version 121.0.6167.85 of Chrome to address this vulnerability. Users and administrators are strongly advised to update to this version or later. The fix has also been incorporated into various distributions including Fedora 38 and 39 through their respective update channels (Fedora Update).