CVE-2017-5019

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-02-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

A use after free in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 55.0.2883.87

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0206.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3776
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95792
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037718
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/666714
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-66
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0206.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3776
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95792
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037718
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/01/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

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