PT-2016-1736 · Google+5 · Google Chrome+5

Atte Kettunen · Published 2016-04-13 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-1654

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 50.0.2661.75 Opera (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the media subsystem in the browser, which does not initialize an unspecified data structure correctly. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service through an invalid read operation. The exact vectors used for the attack are not specified.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 50.0.2661.75, update to version 50.0.2661.75 or later to resolve the issue. For Opera, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2194

BDU:2016-01062

CVE-2016-1654

DSA-3549-1

MGASA-2016-0143

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1061-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1135-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1136-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2016:0638

RHSA-2016_0638

USN-2955-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Opera

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2366

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2955-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1653 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1655 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0143 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1646 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1659 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1578 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1647 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1654 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1654 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1649 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1654 · Security Note