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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5190 Use after free in Internals

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5190 Use after free in Internals

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/17/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/28/2016
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android incorrectly handled object lifecycles during shutdown, which allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via crafted HTML pages.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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