CVE-2016-1654

MEDIUM

Google Chrome <50.0.2661.75 - DoS

Title source: llm

Description

The media subsystem in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 does not initialize an unspecified data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read operation) via unknown vectors.

References (10)

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html

[Release Notes, Vendor Advisory] http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2955-1

[Issue Tracking] https://crbug.com/589512

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3549

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00041.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00049.html

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00050.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0249

EPSS Percentile 85.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-20

Status draft

Affected Products (7)

debian/debian_linux

opensuse/leap

suse/linux_enterprise

google/chrome < 49.0.2623.112

canonical/ubuntu_linux

Timeline

Published Apr 18, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026