CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5142
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-08-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
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.
Affected configurations
• google chrome (<= 52.0.2743.82)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html googlechromereleases.blogspot.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1580.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3645 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92276 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036547 www.securitytracker.com
- https://codereview.chromium.org/2141843002/ codereview.chromium.org
- https://crbug.com/626948 crbug.com
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KMX62M7UNRLWO4FEQ6YIMPMTKXXJV6A/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09 security.gentoo.org
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/08/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html googlechromereleases.blogspot.com
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00005.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00006.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1580.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3645 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92276 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036547 www.securitytracker.com
- https://codereview.chromium.org/2141843002/ codereview.chromium.org
- https://crbug.com/626948 crbug.com
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4KMX62M7UNRLWO4FEQ6YIMPMTKXXJV6A/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09 security.gentoo.org