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CVE-2017-15412

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Date: August 28, 2018

Use after free in libxml2 before 2.9.5, as used in Google Chrome prior to 63.0.3239.84 and other products, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Language: Ruby

Severity Score

8.8

Related Resources (15)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15412

Url: https://web.archive.org/web/20201208155618/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040348

Url: https://crbug.com/727039

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15412

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3401

Url: https://github.com/sparklemotion/nokogiri/issues/1714

Url: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783160

Url: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00014.html

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4086

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040348

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0287

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-03

Url: https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/nokogiri/CVE-2017-15412.yml

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-15412

Severity Score

8.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Use After Free

CWE-416

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 2.9.6

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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