CVE-2016-1688

Upstream information

CVE-2016-1688 at MITRE

Description

The regexp (aka regular expression) implementation in Google V8 before 5.0.71.40, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, mishandles external string sizes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted JavaScript code.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.5
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 981886 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2016:1430-1, published Sat, 28 May 2016 01:08:05 +0200 (CEST)
• openSUSE-SU-2016:1433-1, published Sat, 28 May 2016 01:08:32 +0200 (CEST)
• openSUSE-SU-2016:1496-1, published Sun, 5 Jun 2016 16:07:48 +0200 (CEST)

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
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 GA chromedriver-55.0.2883.75-3.1 openSUSE Tumbleweed GA ungoogled-chromium-113.0.5672.92-1.1

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu May 26 13:00:52 2016
CVE page last modified: Mon May 22 00:42:23 2023