CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-5019

Use After Free

Published: Feb 17, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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A use after free in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
ChromeGoogle*55.0.2883.87 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryRedHatchromium-browser-0:56.0.2924.76-1.el6*
Chromium-browserUbuntudevel*
Chromium-browserUbuntuprecise*
Chromium-browserUbuntutrusty*
Chromium-browserUbuntuupstream*
Chromium-browserUbuntuxenial*
Chromium-browserUbuntuyakkety*
Chromium-browserUbuntuzesty*
Oxide-qtUbuntudevel*
Oxide-qtUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
Oxide-qtUbuntutrusty*
Oxide-qtUbuntuvivid/stable-phone-overlay*
Oxide-qtUbuntuxenial*
Oxide-qtUbuntuyakkety*
Oxide-qtUbuntuzesty*

Potential Mitigations

References