PT-2016-6283 · Opera+4 · Opera+4

Published 2016-08-31 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-5163

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

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 bidirectional-text implementation, which does not ensure left-to-right rendering of URLs. This allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via crafted right-to-left Unicode text. The issue is related to omnibox/SuggestionView.java and omnibox/UrlBar.java in Chrome for Android.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X, update to version 53.0.2785.89 or later. For Google Chrome versions prior to 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, 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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-254

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2194

CVE-2016-5163

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

Red Hat

Suse

References · 2370

• 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-2016-5163 · 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://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5163 · Security Note
• 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5163 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5163 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0309.html · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09 · Vendor Advisory