CVE-2019-5798

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-05-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-125

Description

Lack of correct bounds checking in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04
Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
Google Chrome: before 73.0.3683.75 — fixed in 73.0.3683.75
openSUSE Backports: sle-15
openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1, 42.3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
SUSE Package Hub: all versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Google Chrome 73.0.3683.75. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00084.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00085.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1308
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1309
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1310
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_12.html
https://crbug.com/883596
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00038.html
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/67
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3997-1/

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