CVE-2018-6170 (GCVE-0-2018-6170)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-09 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 05:54
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
A bad cast in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 68.0.3440.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted PDF file.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CWE
- Type Confusion
Assigner
References
6 references
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|---|---|
| https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/07/sta… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2282 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201808-01 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4256 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://crbug.com/862059 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104887 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
Impacted products
Date Public
2019-01-09 00:00
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