CVE-2016-5131

high
Published 2016-07-23 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in libxml2 through 2.9.4, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5131

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201611-2

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-5131.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
arch archfixed2.9.4+12+ge905f08-1
debian debianbookwormfixed2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1
debian debianforkyfixed2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1
debian debiansidfixed2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1
macos macosaffected10.0
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse13.2affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endExcluding":"52.0.2743.82"}52.0.2743.82
xmlsoftlibxml2{"endIncluding":"2.9.4"}

References

CWEs

CWE-416

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