CVE-2016-1654
medium
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5
Description
The media subsystem in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 does not initialize an unspecified data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read operation) via unknown vectors.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—
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.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 15.10 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 16.04 | affected | |
| suse | 42.1 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| chrome | {"endIncluding":"49.0.2623.112"} | |
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://crbug.com/589512
- 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://crbug.com/589512
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02
CWEs
CWE-20
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.