Race condition in Google Chrome - CVE-2017-5068

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Race condition in Google Chrome - CVE-2017-5068

Published: May 4, 2017 / Updated: June 11, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU6417
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5068
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.

The vulnerability exists due to a race condition in WebRTC when processing web pages. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted web page, trick the victim into visiting it and execute arbitrary code on the target system with privileges of the current user.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.


Affected software

Google Chrome
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Fedora
SUSE Linux
Opensuse
chromium-native_client
chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2017-5068

Update to version 58.0.3029.96.

Google Chrome - update to 58.0.3029.96
chromium-native_client - addressed in versions 58.0.3029.81-1.20170421gitc948e9b.fc25, 58.0.3029.81-1.20170421gitc948e9b.fc26
chromium - addressed in versions 58.0.3029.110-2.el7, 58.0.3029.110-2.fc25, 58.0.3029.110-2.fc26

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