CVE-2019-13747 Memory corruption in Chrome

What is CVE-2019-13747?

CVE-2019-13747 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 10 Dec 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Uninitialized data in rendering in Google Chrome on Android prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness: CWE-908, CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-13747?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-13747?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2019-13747 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-13747 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-13747, GHSA-r558-phpj-4qf7.