vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2017-5023 Type confusion in metrics

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 17, 2017
Added
Feb 22, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Type confusion in Histogram in Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, and 56.0.2924.87 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit a near null dereference via a crafted HTML page.

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
Title
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