FKIE_CVE-2017-5029

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-04-24 23:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:19
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0499.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3810
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96767
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038157
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://crbug.com/676623
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=08ab2774b870de1c7b5a48693df75e8154addae5
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0499.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3810
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96767
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038157
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://crbug.com/676623
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.gnome.org/browse/libxslt/commit/?id=08ab2774b870de1c7b5a48693df75e8154addae5
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
google chrome *
apple macos -
linux linux_kernel -
microsoft windows -
google chrome *
google android -
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
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