Information disclosure in Google Chrome - CVE-2017-15418

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Information disclosure in Google Chrome - CVE-2017-15418

Published: December 7, 2017 / Updated: June 11, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9583
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15418
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.

The weakness exists due to use of uninitialized value in Skia. A remote attacker can trick the victim into visiting a specially crafted website and read arbitrary data from system memory.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.

Affected software

Google Chrome
Arch Linux
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Fedora
qt5-qtwebengine
chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2017-15418

Update to version 63.0.3239.84.

Google Chrome - update to 63.0.3239.84
qt5-qtwebengine - addressed in versions 5.10.1-1.fc26, 5.10.1-1.fc27
chromium - addressed in versions 63.0.3239.108-1.fc26, 63.0.3239.108-1.fc27

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