vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-5121): chromium-browser vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 27, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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

ubuntu-upgrade-chromium-browser
Title
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