Use of an uninitialized value in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android,…

Description

Use of an uninitialized value in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted HTML page.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.8% · top 22% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• Uninitialized Use
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android

  • affected Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android

References (7)

• GLSA-201709-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• RHSA-2017:2676 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• https://crbug.com/725127 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 1039291 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 100610 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• DSA-3985 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2017-5119](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2017-5119.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2017-5119)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 14:47 UTC.