PT-2016-4894 · Google+5 · Google V8+6

Published 2016-04-28 · Updated 2025-09-29 · CVE-2016-1665

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 50.0.2661.94 Opera (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the mishandling of comparison operators by the JSGenericLowering class in Google V8, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via crafted JavaScript code.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 50.0.2661.94, update to version 50.0.2661.94 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.

Exploit

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2025_16880

ALT-PU-2016-2194

CVE-2016-1665

DSA-3564-1

MGASA-2016-0160

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1208-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1209-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1655-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2016:0707

RHSA-2016_0707

USN-2960-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Google V8

Opera

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2369

• 🔥 https://github.com/tunz/js-vuln-db/blob/master/v8/CVE-2016-1665.md · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1666 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3564-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0707.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2960-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1665 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1663 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00048.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3564 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0160 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2960-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1668 · Vendor Advisory