Medium [CVE-2026-17785] Uninitialized Use in ANGLE
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-17785 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
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Summary
Uninitialized Use in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 151.0.7922.72 allowed a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: Medium) An uninitialized use flaw was found in the ANGLE component of the Chromium browser.
Upstream bug(s): Red Hat Product Security rates the severity of this flaw as determined by the Google Chrome Security Advisory. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).
Weakness: CWE-824. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
Will not fix / out of support: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2026:74084, RHSA-2026:69098.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: webkit2gtk3; Red Hat package: webkitgtk4.
- < 151.0.7922.72
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- webkit2gtk3-0:2.54.0-1.el8_10
- webkit2gtk3-0:2.54.0-1.el9_8
- RHSA-2026:74084
- RHSA-2026:69098
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Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: webkit2gtk3-0:2.54.0-1.el8_10, webkit2gtk3-0:2.54.0-1.el9_8, RHSA-2026:74084, RHSA-2026:69098. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here. Review it before change work.
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