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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2017-15412 Use after free in libXML

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2017-15412 Use after free in libXML

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/28/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/29/2018
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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