FKIE_CVE-2016-5221

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-01-19 05:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:49
Severity
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Summary
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.
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/660854
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/660854
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
google chrome *
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          "product": "Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android",
          "vendor": "n/a",
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            }
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    }
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T00:49:00.043",
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