CVE-2016-5183 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A heap use after free in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via crafted PDF files.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Google	Chrome
Redhat	Rhel Extras

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary
chromium-browser-0:54.0.2840.59-1.el6	cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_extras:6	RHSA-2016:2067	2016-10-17T00:00:00Z

References

Link	Providers
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2067.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93528
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://codereview.chromium.org/2338893002
https://crbug.com/645122
https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5183
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5183

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Chrome

Published: 2016-12-18T03:34:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T00:53:48.248Z

Reserved: 2016-05-31T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-5183

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-12-18T03:59:00.193

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2016-5183

Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2016-10-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-5183 - Bugzilla

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