Information disclosure in Google Chrome - CVE-2017-15417

 

Information disclosure in Google Chrome - CVE-2017-15417

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9586
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-2017-15417
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 cross origin information disclosure 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
chromium

How to mitigate CVE-2017-15417

Update to version 63.0.3239.84.

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

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