Bug 2477634 (CVE-2026-8525)

Summary: CVE-2026-8525 chromium-browser: angle: chromium-browser: Heap buffer overflow in ANGLE
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: gotiwari, jhorak, mvyas, rhel-process-autobot, watson-tool-maintainers
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A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the ANGLE component of the Chromium browser. Upstream bug(s): https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=497928952
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Bug Depends On: 2540754, 2477796, 2477797, 2540755    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-14 21:02:16 UTC
Heap buffer overflow in ANGLE in Google Chrome on Mac prior to 148.0.7778.168 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Comment 3 Jon Orris 2026-09-30 19:34:57 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2026:74084 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:74084

Comment 4 Jon Orris 2026-09-30 20:10:28 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2026:69098 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69098