CVE-2024-6102: 
vulnerability analysis and mitigation

CVE-2024-6102 is a high-severity vulnerability discovered in the Dawn component of Google Chrome versions prior to 126.0.6478.114. The vulnerability was reported by wgslfuzz on May 7, 2024, and involves an out-of-bounds memory access issue that could potentially lead to heap corruption (Chrome Release).

The vulnerability is classified as an out-of-bounds memory access issue in Dawn, Google Chrome's graphics engine. It has received a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.8 (High), with a vector string of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H. The vulnerability is associated with CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write) and CWE-125 (Out-of-bounds Read) (NVD).

The vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption through a specially crafted HTML page, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution with the same privileges as the Chrome browser process (NVD).

Google has released version 126.0.6478.114 of Chrome to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to update their Chrome browser to this version or later. The update has been rolled out for Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms (Chrome Release).