CVE-2017-15412

Publication date 7 December 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
chromium-browser 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu1
17.10 artful
Fixed 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
17.04 zesty
Fixed 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.17.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 63.0.3239.84-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
libxml2 18.10 cosmic
Fixed 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1
17.10 artful
Fixed 2.9.4+dfsg1-4ubuntu1.2
17.04 zesty
Fixed 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2ubuntu0.3
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.5
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.12
oxide-qt 18.10 cosmic Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored Ubuntu touch end-of-life
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
libxml2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3513-1
    • libxml2 vulnerability
    • 13 December 2017
    • USN-3513-2
    • libxml2 vulnerability
    • 13 December 2017

Other references