CVE-2016-5156 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2016-5156 at MITRE

Description

extensions/renderer/event_bindings.cc in the event bindings in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux attempts to process filtered events after failure to add an event matcher, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	8.8
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	High
Integrity Impact	High
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 996648 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SU-2016:2251-1, published Tue Sep 6 13:09:12 MDT 2016
openSUSE-SU-2016:2250-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:35 2023
openSUSE-SU-2016:2296-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:35 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 12	`chromedriver >= 53.0.2785.89-96.1` `chromium >= 53.0.2785.89-96.1` `chromium-desktop-gnome >= 53.0.2785.89-96.1` `chromium-desktop-kde >= 53.0.2785.89-96.1` `chromium-ffmpegsumo >= 53.0.2785.89-96.1`	Patchnames: 5568
openSUSE Leap 15.0	`chromium >= 66.0.3359.170-lp150.1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.0 GA chromium-66.0.3359.170-lp150.1.1
openSUSE Leap 15.2	`chromium >= 83.0.4103.97-lp152.1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.2 GA chromium-83.0.4103.97-lp152.1.1
openSUSE Leap 15.3	`chromium >= 90.0.4430.212-bp153.1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.3 GA chromium-90.0.4430.212-bp153.1.1
openSUSE Leap 15.4	`chromium >= 101.0.4951.64-bp154.1.2`	Patchnames: openSUSE Leap 15.4 GA chromium-101.0.4951.64-bp154.1.2
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`chromedriver >= 55.0.2883.75-3.1` `chromium >= 55.0.2883.75-3.1` `ungoogled-chromium >= 113.0.5672.92-1.1` `ungoogled-chromium-chromedriver >= 113.0.5672.92-1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10171 openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-12948

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s)	Source package	State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Package Hub 12	chromium	Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Aug 31 22:46:26 2016
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 15:46:53 2025