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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5213 Use after free in V8

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5213 Use after free in V8

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/24/2017
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

A use after free in V8 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(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

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