CVE-2017-15412
libxml2 - security update
8.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 2.5%
Description
Use after free in libxml2 before 2.9.5, as used in Google Chrome prior to 63.0.3239.84 and other products, allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
How to fix CVE-2017-15412
To remediate CVE-2017-15412, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/libxml2—upgrade to 2.9.4+dfsg1-5.2 or later
- —upgrade to 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy12 or later
- —upgrade to 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u6 or later
- —upgrade to 1.8.2 or later
Is CVE-2017-15412 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 2.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 2.9.4+dfsg1-5.2
- from 0, < 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy12
- from 0, < 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u6
- from 0, < 1.8.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |