ubuntu · CVE-2017-5029

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-03-10 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:32:39 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-5029 medium priority: Ubuntu including 3 source packages (chromium-browser, libxslt, oxide-qt), 18 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 15, DNE 1, ignored 1, needed 1.

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.

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