CVE-2016-1691

high

Published 2016-06-05 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

Skia, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, mishandles coincidence runs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted curves, related to SkOpCoincidence.cpp and SkPathOpsCommon.cpp.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status
suse	42.1	affected
suse	13.2	affected
debian	8.0	affected
ubuntu	14.04	affected
ubuntu	15.10	affected
ubuntu	16.04	affected
rhel	6.0	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
google	chrome	`{"endIncluding":"50.0.2661.102"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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