CVE-2016-5177

Publication date 2 October 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in V8 in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.143 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
chromium-browser 16.10 yakkety
Fixed 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu1.1307
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1254
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1142
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
oxide-qt 16.10 yakkety
Fixed 1.17.9-0ubuntu1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.17.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.17.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

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

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