CVE-2017-5125 — chromium-browser: heap overflow in skia

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HIGH

chromium-browser: heap overflow in skia

Published Feb 7, 2018

8.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 1.70%

Description

Heap buffer overflow in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Vendor n/a Product Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 Default
n/a
- Version
  Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62
  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 62.0.3202.62

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62	affected	-

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary

chromium-browser-0:62.0.3202.62-2.el6_9

Fixed · RHSA-2017:2997

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary	chromium-browser-0:62.0.3202.62-2.el6_9	Fixed	RHSA-2017:2997

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.70% 0.01698

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

EPSS probability 0.01698

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 (16 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.70% (0.01698)	76.34th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.73% (0.01731)	74.58th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	1.37% (0.01374)	78.47th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	2.50% (0.02500)	75.56th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	1.37% (0.01374)	78.93th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	2.69% (0.02691)	90.83th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Dec 18, 2023	2.69% (0.02691)	89.36th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 8, 2023	2.72% (0.02723)	89.40th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Aug 10, 2023	4.61% (0.04605)	91.47th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 1, 2023	6.37% (0.06367)	92.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 30, 2023	7.72% (0.07720)	93.24th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	7.64% (0.07639)	93.08th	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 (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (10)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101482
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2997
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5125
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1503531
Issue Tracking
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/749147
x_refsource_MISC
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5125
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-24
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5125
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4020
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101482		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2997		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5125		Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1503531		Issue Tracking
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html		x_refsource_MISC
https://crbug.com/749147		x_refsource_MISC
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5125
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-24		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-5125
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4020		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN