GHSA-jjp3-mq3x-295m
Electron: Use-after-free in PowerMonitor on Windows and macOS
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
Apps that use the `powerMonitor` module may be vulnerable to a use-after-free. After the native `PowerMonitor` object is garbage-collected, the associated OS-level resources (a message window on Windows, a shutdown handler on macOS) retain dangling references. A subsequent session-change event (Windows) or system shutdown (macOS) dereferences freed memory, which may lead to a crash or memory corruption.
All apps that access `powerMonitor` events (`suspend`, `resume`, `lock-screen`, etc.) are potentially affected. The issue is not directly renderer-controllable.
### Workarounds
There are no app side workarounds, you must update to a patched version of Electron.
### Fixed Versions
* `41.0.0-beta.8`
* `40.8.0`
* `39.8.1`
* `38.8.6`
### For more information
If there are any questions or comments about this advisory, please email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
References
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