A use after free in printing in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.133 for Linux and Windows allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of b…

Published 9 y ago 2017-10-27 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

8.8

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

2.5%

percentile 85%

Public exploits

none known

A use after free in printing in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.133 for Linux and Windows allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

2.46% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	9.3	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`

Affected products

n/a Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.133 for Linux and Windows

Classification

Weakness

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
CWE-416 Use After Free

Technology feeds

Google Chrome (RSS, critical only)

References

access.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2017:0860 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT, x_transferred
security.gentoo.org /glsa/201704-02 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO, x_transferred
chromereleases.googleblog.com /2017/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_29.html · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
crbug.com /698622 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/97221 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-5055
NVD: CVE-2017-5055

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