Vulnerabilities / CVE-2017-5053

critical

CVE-2017-5053

chromium-browser: out of bounds memory access in v8

Published Modified CWE 125
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

An out-of-bounds read in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.133 for Linux, Windows, and Mac, and 57.0.2987.132 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page, related to Array.prototype.indexOf.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 7chromium-browserno fix listed
debian 8chromium-browserno fix listed
ubuntu 14.04chromium-browser58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172
ubuntu 16.04chromium-browser58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.16.04.1277
ubuntu 16.10chromium-browser58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.16.10.1345
ubuntu 17.04chromium-browser58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu2.17.04.1350
ubuntu 17.10chromium-browser58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu2.1350
ubuntu 18.04chromium-browser58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu2.1350
ubuntu 18.10chromium-browser58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu2.1350

References

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