CVE-2017-5130

Publication date 7 February 2018

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

An integer overflow in xmlmemory.c in libxml2 before 2.9.5, as used in Google Chrome prior to 62.0.3202.62 and other products, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted XML file.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 62.0.3202.62-0ubuntu0.17.10.1380
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 62.0.3202.62-0ubuntu0.17.10.1380
	17.10 artful	Fixed 62.0.3202.62-0ubuntu0.17.10.1380
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 62.0.3202.62-0ubuntu0.17.04.1379
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 62.0.3202.62-0ubuntu0.16.04.1308
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 62.0.3202.62-0ubuntu0.14.04.1204
libxml2	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1ubuntu1
	17.10 artful	Ignored
	17.04 zesty	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored
oxide-qt	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Ignored
	17.04 zesty	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

issue is in debug code only we will not be fixing this issue in libxml2 in stable releases

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
libxml2	Upstream: ?id=897 Upstream: ?id=ed4

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H