CVE-2017-15412 (GCVE-0-2017-15412)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-28 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:57
VLAI
Summary
Use after free in libxml2 before 2.9.5, as used in Google Chrome prior to 63.0.3239.84 and other products, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Use After Free
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://crbug.com/727039 x_refsource_MISC
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783160 x_refsource_MISC
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4086 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0287 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3401 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-03 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/12/sta… x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Google Chrome prior to 63.0.3239.84 unknown Affected: Google Chrome prior to 63.0.3239.84 unknown
Date Public
2017-12-06 00:00
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