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CVE-2017-15418 (GCVE-0-2017-15418)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-28 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:57
VLAI
Summary
Use of uninitialized memory in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 63.0.3239.84 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Uninitialized Use
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3401 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://crbug.com/765858 x_refsource_MISC
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-03 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/12/sta… x_refsource_MISC
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4064 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
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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