Memory leak in Google Chrome - CVE-2018-6137

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Memory leak in Google Chrome - CVE-2018-6137

Published: May 31, 2018 / Updated: June 6, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU13083
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6137
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists due to leak of visited status of page in Blink. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website, trigger memory corruption and gain access to arbitrary data.

Affected software

Google Chrome
Debian Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Fedora
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
openSUSE Leap
chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2018-6137

Update to version 67.0.3396.62.

Google Chrome - update to 67.0.3396.62
chromium - addressed in versions 67.0.3396.79-1.el7, 67.0.3396.79-1.fc27, 67.0.3396.79-1.fc28

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