CVE-2016-1688

medium
Published 2016-06-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The regexp (aka regular expression) implementation in Google V8 before 5.0.71.40, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, mishandles external string sizes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted JavaScript code.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.2affected
debian debian8.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected
redhat rhel6.0affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"50.0.2661.102"}
gcp googlev8{"endIncluding":"5.0.71"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.