CVE-2017-5097 — chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in skia

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HIGH

chromium-browser: out-of-bounds read in skia

Published Oct 27, 2017

8.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 1.67%

Description

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Linux allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Vendor n/a Product Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Linux Default
n/a
- Version
  Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Linux
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  -

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

n/a

Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Linux

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Linux	affected	-

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

chromium-browser-0:60.0.3112.78-1.el6_9

Fixed · RHSA-2017:1833

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary	chromium-browser-0:60.0.3112.78-1.el6_9	Fixed	RHSA-2017:1833

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.67% 0.01665

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.01665

Score over time

2021–2026

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4

Percentile over time

EPSS v1
EPSS v5
EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4

Table of values (14 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.67% (0.01665)	75.86th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.67% (0.01665)	73.60th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	1.16% (0.01156)	76.62th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	2.78% (0.02777)	76.72th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	1.33% (0.01332)	78.62th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	1.83% (0.01833)	88.74th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 8, 2023	1.83% (0.01833)	86.86th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Sep 3, 2023	2.32% (0.02317)	88.33th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 29, 2023	1.94% (0.01937)	86.92th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	3.33% (0.03330)	89.83th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.32% (0.01319)	71.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.32% (0.01319)	44.98th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 3, 2022	0.76% (0.00757)	20.56th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Apr 14, 2021	0.76% (0.00757)	0.00th	v1

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-125

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

References (10)

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3926
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99950
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1833
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5097
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475199
Issue Tracking
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/740789
x_refsource_MISC
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5097
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5097

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3926		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99950		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1833		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5097		Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1475199		Issue Tracking
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html		x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/740789		x_refsource_MISC
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5097
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-15		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5097