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CVE-2019-5845

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-01-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Out of bounds access in SwiftShader in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: before 73.0.3683.75 — fixed in 73.0.3683.75
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

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/2020-01/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00007.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00023.html
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_12.html
• https://crbug.com/915197
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00007.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00023.html
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_12.html
• https://crbug.com/915197

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