Integer underflow in Google Chrome - CVE-2018-6036

 

Integer underflow in Google Chrome - CVE-2018-6036

Published: January 25, 2018 / Updated: June 6, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10238
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6036
CWE-ID: CWE-191
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due integer underflow in WebAssembly. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.

Affected software

Google Chrome
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
SUSE Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
qt5-qtwebengine

How to mitigate CVE-2018-6036

Update to version 64.0.3282.119.

Google Chrome - update to 64.0.3282.119
qt5-qtwebengine - addressed in versions 5.10.1-1.fc26, 5.10.1-1.fc27

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