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CVE-2017-5032 (GCVE-0-2017-5032)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-24 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:47
VLAI
Summary
PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Windows could be made to increment off the end of a buffer, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted PDF file.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • heap buffer overflow
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201704-02 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3810 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96767 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0499.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://crbug.com/668724 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Windows Affected: Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Windows
Date Public
2017-03-09 00:00
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