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CVE-2017-15416

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-08-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap buffer overflow in Blob API in Google Chrome prior to 63.0.3239.84 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page, aka a Blink out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• Google Chrome: before 63.0.3239.84 — fixed in 63.0.3239.84
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 63.0.3239.84. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3401
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/779314
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-03
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4064
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3401
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/779314
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-03
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4064

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