CVE-2016-5198

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Jan 19, 2017
Updated: Oct 21, 2025
Reserved: May 31, 2016

Description

V8 in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac included incorrect optimisation assumptions, which allowed a remote attacker to perform arbitrary read/write operations, leading to code execution, via a crafted HTML page.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Macn/a	Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and MacAffected

References

https://crbug.com/659475
94079vdb-entry
1037224vdb-entry
RHSA-2016:2672vendor-advisory
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/11/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2016-5198government-resource

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