CVE-2025-8879

NameCVE-2025-8879
DescriptionHeap buffer overflow in libaom in Google Chrome prior to 139.0.7258.127 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a curated set of gestures. (Chromium security severity: High)
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-5976-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
chromium (PTS)bullseye (security), bullseye120.0.6099.224-1~deb11u1vulnerable
bookworm139.0.7258.154-1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)140.0.7339.80-1~deb12u1fixed
trixie139.0.7258.154-1~deb13u1fixed
trixie (security)140.0.7339.80-1~deb13u1fixed
forky139.0.7258.154-1fixed
sid140.0.7339.80-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
chromiumsourcebullseye(unfixed)end-of-life
chromiumsourcebookworm139.0.7258.127-1~deb12u1DSA-5976-1
chromiumsourcetrixie139.0.7258.127-1~deb13u1DSA-5976-1
chromiumsource(unstable)139.0.7258.127-1

Notes

[bullseye] - chromium <end-of-life> (see #1061268)

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