CVE-2017-5088

Publication date 27 October 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Insufficient validation of untrusted input in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.104 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 59.0.3071.117 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to perform out of bounds memory access via a crafted HTML page.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu1.1360
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu1.1360
	17.10 artful	Fixed 59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu1.1360
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu0.17.04.1360
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu0.16.10.1357
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu0.16.04.1289
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 59.0.3071.109-0ubuntu0.14.04.1186
libv8-3.14	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored end of standard support
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	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
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mikesalvatore

The Ubuntu Security Team does not support libv8

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H