Out-of-Bounds Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <50.0.2661.102-0ubuntu1.1242
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-CHROMIUMBROWSER-410163
- published 18 Apr 2016
- disclosed 18 Apr 2016
Introduced: 18 Apr 2016
CVE-2016-1653 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 chromium-browser to version 50.0.2661.102-0ubuntu1.1242 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 Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
The LoadBuffer implementation in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75, mishandles data types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that triggers an out-of-bounds write operation, related to compiler/pipeline.cc and compiler/simplified-lowering.cc.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-1653
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html
- https://crbug.com/589792
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1740123002
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3549
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1653
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00041.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00049.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00050.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2955-1