CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-5091

Use After Free

Published: Oct 27, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.8 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A use after free in IndexedDB in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Linux, Android, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read 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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.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

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Chrome Google * 60.0.3112.78 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary RedHat chromium-browser-0:60.0.3112.78-1.el6_9 *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu artful *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu bionic *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu cosmic *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu devel *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu trusty *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu upstream *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu xenial *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu zesty *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu artful *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu trusty *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu xenial *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References