CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5161

8.8 HIGH Published 2016-09-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-09-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-704

Description

The EditingStyle::mergeStyle function in WebKit/Source/core/editing/EditingStyle.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, mishandles custom properties, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted web site that leverages "type confusion" in the StylePropertySerializer class.

Affected configurations

• google chrome (<= 52.0.2743.116) • opensuse leap 42.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-704 Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast weakness

References