CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5170

Use After Free

Published: Sep 25, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
6.8 IMPORTANT
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
8.8 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

WebKit/Source/bindings/modules/v8/V8BindingForModules.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, does not properly consider getter side effects during array key conversion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted Indexed Database (aka IndexedDB) API calls.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Chrome Google * 53.0.2785.101 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary RedHat chromium-browser-0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6 *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu devel *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu precise *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu trusty *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu upstream *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu xenial *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu yakkety *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu devel *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu trusty *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu upstream *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu vivid/stable-phone-overlay *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu xenial *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu yakkety *

Potential Mitigations

References