vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5209 Out of bounds write in Blink

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 19, 2017
Added
Jan 24, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Bad casting in bitmap manipulation in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
Title
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