vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-1688 Out-of-bounds read in V8

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 5, 2016
Added
Jun 9, 2016
Modified
Aug 12, 2025

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.

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
Title
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