CVE-2017-5117

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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-200

Description

Use of an uninitialized value in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Linux and Windows allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 9.0
Google Chrome: before 61.0.3163.79 — fixed in 61.0.3163.79

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 61.0.3163.79. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3985
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100610
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039291
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2676
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/739190
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3985
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100610
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039291
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2676
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

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