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CVE-2018-6170

Date: January 9, 2019

A bad cast in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 68.0.3440.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted PDF file.

Severity Score

8.8

Related Resources (11)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2282

Url: https://crbug.com/862059

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-6170

Url: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/07/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-6170

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-6170

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201808-01

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-6170

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104887

Url: https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4256

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-6170

Severity Score

8.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

CWE-704

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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