CVE-2016-1653

Description

The LoadBuffer implementation in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75, mishandles data types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that triggers an out-of-bounds write operation, related to compiler/pipeline.cc and compiler/simplified-lowering.cc.

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00041.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00049.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00050.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3549
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2955-1
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1740123002
• https://crbug.com/589792
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00041.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00049.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00050.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3549
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2955-1
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1740123002
• https://crbug.com/589792
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02

CWEs

CWE-119