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Red Hat: CVE-2017-5121: Important: chromium-browser security update (RHSA-2017:2792)

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Red Hat: CVE-2017-5121: Important: chromium-browser security update (RHSA-2017:2792)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/04/2017
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Inappropriate use of JIT optimisation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.100 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page, related to the escape analysis phase.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-chromium-browser
  • redhat-upgrade-chromium-browser-debuginfo

References

  • 100947
  • DSA-3985
  • GLSA-201709-25
  • CVE-2017-5121
  • 1039497

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