CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5219

Use After Free

Published: Jan 19, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
6.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
4.3 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V3
6.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A heap use after free in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.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 * 54.0.2840.99 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary RedHat chromium-browser-0:55.0.2883.75-1.el6 *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu artful *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu bionic *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu cosmic *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu devel *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu precise *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu trusty *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu upstream *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu xenial *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu yakkety *
Chromium-browser Ubuntu zesty *
Libv8 Ubuntu precise *
Libv8-3.14 Ubuntu artful *
Libv8-3.14 Ubuntu bionic *
Libv8-3.14 Ubuntu cosmic *
Libv8-3.14 Ubuntu devel *
Libv8-3.14 Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Libv8-3.14 Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Libv8-3.14 Ubuntu trusty *
Libv8-3.14 Ubuntu upstream *
Libv8-3.14 Ubuntu xenial *
Libv8-3.14 Ubuntu yakkety *
Libv8-3.14 Ubuntu zesty *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu artful *
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 *
Oxide-qt Ubuntu zesty *

Potential Mitigations

References