Use after free in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 76.0.3809.100 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a cra…

published 2019-11-25 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-15439

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 44%
public exploits: 0; none known

Use after free in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 76.0.3809.100 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted PDF file.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 distros 4

Google Chrome 76.0.3809.100

debian ubuntu opensuse arch linux

chromium Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 76.0.3809.100-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5868

chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 76.0.3809.100-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
chromium-browser Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 76.0.3809.100-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5868

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chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
chromium Package Hub 12 SP3 78.0.3904.87-10.1
chromium Package Hub 15 76.0.3809.100-bp150.223.1
chromium Package Hub 15 SP1 76.0.3809.100-bp151.3.6.1
chromium openSUSE Leap 15.0 76.0.3809.100-lp150.229.1
chromium openSUSE Leap 15.1 76.0.3809.100-lp151.2.20.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 openSUSE-SU-2019:2447-1 openSUSE-SU-2019:1931-1 openSUSE-SU-2019:1928-1 openSUSE-SU-2019:1903-1

chromium Arch Linux 76.0.3809.100-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1018

Exploit prediction

0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

Google Chrome

Classification

Weakness

CWE-416 Use After Free
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Technology feeds

Google Chrome rss critical rss

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2019-5868
NVD CVE-2019-5868

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Summary