CVE-2016-1653 Information

Description

The LoadBuffer implementation in Google V8 as used in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 mishandles data types which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that triggers an out-of-bounds write operation related to compiler/pipeline.cc and compiler/simplified-lowering.cc.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00041.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00049.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00050.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3549 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2955-1 https://codereview.chromium.org/1740123002 https://crbug.com/589792 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8