PT-2016-6271 · Google+4 · Google Chrome+5

Phil Oester · Published 2016-08-31 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-5151

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 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X Google Chrome versions prior to 53.0.2785.92 on Linux Opera (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the mishandling of timers in PDFium, which can be exploited by remote attackers using a crafted PDF document. This can lead to a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have other unspecified impacts. The problem is associated with the files fpdfsdk/javascript/JS Object.cpp and fpdfsdk/javascript/app.cpp.

Recommendations For Google Chrome on Windows and OS X prior to version 53.0.2785.89, update to version 53.0.2785.89 or later. For Google Chrome on Linux prior to version 53.0.2785.92, update to version 53.0.2785.92 or later. For Opera, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

DoS

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2194

CVE-2016-5151

DSA-3660-1

MGASA-2016-0309

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2250-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2250-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2296-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2016:1854

RHSA-2016_1854

SUSE-SU-2016:2250-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2251-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Opera

Pdfium

Red Hat

Suse

References · 2369

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5151 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5151 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0309 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5151 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-09/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2250-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2016:2250-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2251-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-09/msg00073.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3660-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0309.html · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3660 · Vendor Advisory