Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting chromium package, versions [,54.0.2840.100)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.96% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410183
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jan 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 54.0.2840.100 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. 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.

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