CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-5029

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-04-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-04-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

The xsltAddTextString function in transform.c in libxslt 1.1.29, as used in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android, lacked a check for integer overflow during a size calculation, which allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write via a crafted HTML page.

Affected configurations

• google chrome (<= 57.0.2987.75) • google chrome (<= 57.0.2987.100) • xmlsoft libxslt 1.1.29 • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References