CVE-2017-15412
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.
02 Description
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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.93% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-08-28 19:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 19:57Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2017-10-17
- Assigning CNA
- Chrome
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416Use After FreeVariant
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e6009330af9645762025c10c81985e7d15ee5aff84985fb8995baf429e19651e
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securitytracker.com1040348http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040348
- crbug.comhttps://crbug.com/727039
- bugzilla.gnome.orghttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783160
- www.debian.orgDSA-4086https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4086
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:0287https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0287
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20171218 [SECURITY] [DLA 1211-1] libxml2 security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00014.html
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2017:3401https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3401
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201801-03https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-03
- chromereleases.googleblog.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- chromium Fixed in 63.0.3239.84-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- libxml2 Fixed in 2.9.4+dfsg1-5.2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- libxml2 Fixed in 2.9.4+dfsg1-5.2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- libxml2 Fixed in 2.9.4+dfsg1-5.2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
- libxml2 Fixed in 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.12
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
- libxml2 Fixed in 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.5
- oxide-qt No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- chromium-browser Fixed in 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu1
- libxml2 Fixed in 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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