certfr_avis - certfr-2016-avi-367

CERTFR-2016-AVI-367

Vulnerability from certfr_avis

Une vulnérabilité a été corrigée dans Google Chrome. Elle permet à un attaquant de provoquer un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.

Solution

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

None

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Description
	Google	Chrome	Google Chrome versions antérieures à 54.0.2840.87 sur Windows et Mac
	Google	Chrome	Google Chrome versions antérieures à 54.0.2840.90 sur Linux

References

Title

Publication Time

CVE-2016-5198 (GCVE-0-2016-5198)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-01-19 05:43

Modified

2025-10-21 23:55

Severity ?

8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

incorrect compiler optimisations

Summary

V8 in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac included incorrect optimisation assumptions, which allowed a remote attacker to perform arbitrary read/write operations, leading to code execution, via a crafted HTML page.

References

URL

Tags

	https://crbug.com/659475	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94079	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037224	vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
	http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2672.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
	https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac	Version: Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac

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Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

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