CVE-2016-1653
HIGH severity · CVSS 8.8 · Memory corruption
8.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
The LoadBuffer implementation in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75, mishandles data types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that triggers an out-of-bounds write operation, related to compiler/pipeline.cc and compiler/simplified-lowering.cc.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00041.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00049.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00050.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3549
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2955-1