CVE-2017-5133

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-02-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Off-by-one read/write on the heap in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 allowed a remote attacker to corrupt memory and possibly leak information and potentially execute code via a crafted PDF file.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
Google Chrome: before 62.0.3202.62 — fixed in 62.0.3202.62

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 62.0.3202.62. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101482
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2997
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/762106
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-24
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4020
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101482
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2997
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://crbug.com/762106
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-24
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4020

Get alerted when CVE-2017-5133 or the next vulnerability affects your stack