CVE-2017-5120

NameCVE-2017-5120
DescriptionInappropriate use of www mismatch redirects in browser navigation in Google Chrome prior to 61.0.3163.79 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 61.0.3163.81 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to potentially downgrade HTTPS requests to HTTP via a crafted HTML page. In other words, Chrome could transmit cleartext even though the user had entered an https URL, because of a misdesigned workaround for cases where the domain name in a URL almost matches the domain name in an X.509 server certificate (but differs in the initial "www." substring).
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-3985-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
chromium-browser (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1vulnerable
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch71.0.3578.80-1~deb9u1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
chromium-browsersourcewheezy(unfixed)end-of-life
chromium-browsersourcejessie(unfixed)end-of-life
chromium-browsersourcestretch61.0.3163.100-1~deb9u1DSA-3985-1
chromium-browsersource(unstable)61.0.3163.100-1

Notes

[jessie] - chromium-browser <end-of-life> (End of life, see DSA 4020)
[wheezy] - chromium-browser <end-of-life> (Not supported in Wheezy)

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