CVE-2016-5142

Description

The Web Cryptography API (aka WebCrypto) implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.116, does not properly copy data buffers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code, related to NormalizeAlgorithm.cpp and SubtleCrypto.cpp.

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/2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00006.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1580.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3645
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92276
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036547
• https://codereview.chromium.org/2141843002/
• https://crbug.com/626948
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KMX62M7UNRLWO4FEQ6YIMPMTKXXJV6A/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00006.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1580.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3645
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92276
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036547
• https://codereview.chromium.org/2141843002/
• https://crbug.com/626948
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KMX62M7UNRLWO4FEQ6YIMPMTKXXJV6A/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09

CWEs

CWE-416