Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 27, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2017-5066

Description

Insufficient consistency checks in signature handling in the networking stack in Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 58.0.3029.83 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to incorrectly accept a badly formed X.509 certificate via a crafted HTML page.

Affected products

Google/Chrome
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <58.0.3029.81
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Desktop
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Server
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Workstation
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/97939nvd
www.securitytracker.com/id/1038317nvd
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1124nvd
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2017/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlnvd
crbug.com/690821nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-02nvd

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