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Use After Free Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu1

Severity

 Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    2.14% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-CHROMIUMBROWSER-409318
  • published 27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed 28 Aug 2018
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Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-15412 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 chromium-browser to version 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.