CVE-2017-5130

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2017-10-17
Bugzilla:
1503537: CVE-2017-5130 chromium-browser: heap overflow in libxml2

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

An integer overflow in xmlmemory.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5, as used in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 and other products, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted XML file.

Find out more about CVE-2017-5130 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 8.8
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (chromium-browser) RHSA-2017:2997 2017-10-20

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3 libxml2 Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libxml2 Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libxml2 Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libxml2 Will not fix
RHEV Manager 3 mingw-virt-viewer Will not fix

External References

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