PT-2016-6291 · Opera+5 · Opera+6

Published 2016-09-13 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-5171

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 53.0.2785.113 Opera (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code. This is due to the failure to prevent certain constructor calls in the WebKit/Source/bindings/templates/interface.cpp in Blink.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 53.0.2785.113, update to version 53.0.2785.113 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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2194

CVE-2016-5171

DSA-3667-1

MGASA-2016-0309

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2309-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016:2311-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2310-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2311-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2016:1905

RHSA-2016_1905

USN-3091-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Blink

Google Chrome

Opera

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2368

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2016:2309-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0309 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5171 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5175 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7549 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3667 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5170 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1905.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5171 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-5171 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-3091-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3091-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0309.html · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09 · Vendor Advisory