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CVE-2018-18356

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

An integer overflow in path handling lead to a use after free in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Google Chrome: before 71.0.3578.80 — fixed in 71.0.3578.80
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 7.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 71.0.3578.80. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00043.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106084
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3803
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0373
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0374
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1144
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/883666
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00023.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00024.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-04
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-07

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