Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <55.0.2883.75-1~deb8u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.96% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-CHROMIUMBROWSER-413890
  • published19 Jan 2017
  • disclosed19 Jan 2017

Introduced: 19 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-5221  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 chromium-browser to version 55.0.2883.75-1~deb8u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Type confusion in libGLESv2 in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android possibly allowed a remote attacker to bypass buffer validation via a crafted HTML page.