CVE-2017-5097

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-10-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Linux allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
Google Chrome: through 60.0.3112.76

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3926
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99950
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1833
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/740789
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3926
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99950
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1833
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/740789
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15

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