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CVE-2016-5204 (GCVE-0-2016-5204)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-19 05:43 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:53
VLAI
Summary
Leaking of an SVG shadow tree leading to corruption of the DOM tree in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted HTML page.
Severity
6.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • object corruption
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://crbug.com/630870 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/sta… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android Affected: Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android
Date Public
2016-12-01 00:00
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