CVE-2018-18356

HIGH 8.8CVE-2018-18356 · Published 11/12/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-18356 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting chrome (google).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.3%, higher than 88.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 71.0.3578.80 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
chrome google	`< 71.0.3578.80`	`71.0.3578.80`

Description

An integer overflow in path handling lead to a use after free in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00043.html
securityfocus.com/bid/106084
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3803
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0373
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0374
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1144
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2018/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
crbug.com/883666
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00023.html
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/02/msg00024.html
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-04
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-07
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201908-18
usn.ubuntu.com/3896-1

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