PT-2016-6288 · Google+2 · Skia+3

Phil Oester · Published 2016-04-28 · Updated 2017-04-27 · CVE-2016-5168

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and obtain sensitive information. This is related to the Skia component used in the affected browsers.

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

Origin Validation Error

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-346

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2194

CVE-2016-5168

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Opera

Skia

References · 10

• 🔥 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=586820 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5168 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5168 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5168 · Vendor Advisory
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_28.html · Note
• https://contextis.com//documents/2/Browser_Timing_Attacks.pdf · Note
• https://crbug.com/586820 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/89106 · Note