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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2017-15412 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 8.8 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Core Services 1 | RHSA-2018:0287 | 2018-02-08 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (chromium-browser) | RHSA-2017:3401 | 2017-12-07 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 | libxml2 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | libxml2 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | libxml2 | Will not fix |
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