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CVE-2016-5142 (GCVE-0-2016-5142)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-08-07 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:53
VLAI
Summary
The Web Cryptography API (aka WebCrypto) implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, does not properly copy data buffers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code, related to NormalizeAlgorithm.cpp and SubtleCrypto.cpp.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1580.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://codereview.chromium.org/2141843002/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036547 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://crbug.com/626948 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/08/… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3645 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Date Public
2016-08-03 00:00
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