VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-5029

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability2.16%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-04-24
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

The xsltAddTextString function in transform.c in libxslt 1.1.29, as used in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android, lacked a check for integer overflow during a size calculation, which allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory write via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references