CVE-2017-5121

Publication date 27 October 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Inappropriate use of JIT optimisation in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.100 for Linux, Windows, and Mac allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page, related to the escape analysis phase.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libv8-3.14	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored libv8 not supported
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored libv8 not supported
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
oxide-qt	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored Ubuntu touch end-of-life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
chromium-browser	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 61.0.3163.100-0ubuntu1.1378
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 61.0.3163.100-0ubuntu1.1378
	17.10 artful	Fixed 61.0.3163.100-0ubuntu1.1378
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 61.0.3163.100-0ubuntu0.17.04.1377
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 61.0.3163.100-0ubuntu0.16.04.1306
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 61.0.3163.100-0ubuntu0.14.04.1202

Notes

mikesalvatore

The Ubuntu Security Team does not support libv8

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H