FKIE_CVE-2016-5207

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-01-19 05:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:48
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
In Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android, corruption of the DOM tree could occur during the removal of a full screen element, which allowed a remote attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution via a crafted HTML page.
References
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://crbug.com/655904
chrome-cve-admin@google.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://crbug.com/655904
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
google chrome *
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