Skip to content
Fencer Intel
medium 6.5

CVE-2019-5798 json

Lack of correct bounds checking in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory…

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-15370

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.2%
EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Lack of correct bounds checking in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page.

Patch / fix

  • google chrome 73.0.3683.75
  • chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 73.0.3683.75-1
  • firefox-esr Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 60.7.0esr-1
  • thunderbird Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:60.7.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5798

  • thunderbird Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1:60.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • thunderbird Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1:60.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 73.0.3683.75-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 73.0.3683.75-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5798

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • thunderbird RHEL 6 60.7.0-1.el6_10
  • thunderbird RHEL 7 60.7.0-1.el7_6
  • thunderbird RHEL 8 60.7.0-1.el8_0
  • firefox RHEL 6 60.7.0-1.el6_10
  • firefox RHEL 7 60.7.0-1.el7_6
  • firefox RHEL 8 60.7.0-1.el8_0
  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 73.0.3683.75-1.el6_10

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:1310RHSA-2019:1309RHSA-2019:1308RHSA-2019:1267RHSA-2019:1265RHSA-2019:1269

  • MozillaThunderbird SLE Workstation Extension 15 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 15 60.7.0-3.33.2

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:1458-1

  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 91.1.1-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 15, Package Hub 12 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.1 +1 more 75.0.3770.90-bp150.213.3
  • MozillaThunderbird Package Hub 12 60.7.2-85.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Leap 15.0 60.7.0-lp150.3.54.5
  • chromium openSUSE Leap 15.0 73.0.3683.75-lp150.206.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1666-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1664-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1534-1

  • firefox-esr Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22, Alpine 3.21 +12 more 60.7.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-5798

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium Arch Linux 73.0.3683.75-1
  • thunderbird Arch Linux 60.7.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-923AVG-965

Is CVE-2019-5798 in your stack? Fencer shows which of your repositories are affected as soon as an advisory lands, and opens the fix as a pull request.

Check with Fencer

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-5798 updated cvss 6.5

chromium-browser: Out of bounds read in Skia

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) firefox 60.7.0-1.el8_0, thunderbird 60.7.0-1.el8_0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1269
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) firefox 60.7.0-1.el7_6, thunderbird 60.7.0-1.el7_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) firefox 60.7.0-1.el7_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1265
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) firefox 60.7.0-1.el6_10, thunderbird 60.7.0-1.el6_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) firefox 60.7.0-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1267
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 73.0.3683.75-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0708
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server (v. 7) firefox 60.7.0-1.el7_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1265
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM and IBM Power LE (POWER9) Server Optional (v. 7) thunderbird 60.7.0-1.el7_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1309
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) firefox 60.7.0-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1267
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 73.0.3683.75-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0708
show 10 more
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) firefox 60.7.0-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1267
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) firefox 60.7.0-1.el7_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1265
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) firefox 60.7.0-1.el6_10, thunderbird 60.7.0-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1267
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) firefox 60.7.0-1.el7_6, thunderbird 60.7.0-1.el7_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1265
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 73.0.3683.75-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0708
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) firefox 60.7.0-1.el6_10, thunderbird 60.7.0-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1267
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) firefox 60.7.0-1.el7_6, thunderbird 60.7.0-1.el7_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1265
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) firefox 60.7.0-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1267
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) firefox 60.7.0-1.el7_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:1265
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 73.0.3683.75-1.el6_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:0708

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.