PT-2016-2158 · Google+5 · Skia+6

Atte Kettunen · Published 2016-05-25 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-1680

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 51.0.2704.63 Opera (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a use-after-free vulnerability in the ports/SkFontHost FreeType.cpp component of Skia, used in Google Chrome and Opera. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, resulting in heap memory corruption, or possibly have other unspecified impacts.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 51.0.2704.63, update to version 51.0.2704.63 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

Use After Free

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2194

BDU:2016-01511

CVE-2016-1680

DSA-3590-1

MGASA-2016-0214

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1430-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1496-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2016:1190

RHSA-2016_1190

USN-2992-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Opera

Red Hat

Skia

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2376

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1697 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1699 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1702 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1678 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2992-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1680 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1679 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1680 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1689 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1680 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00062.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1683 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1190 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00005.html · Vendor Advisory