vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5219 Use after free in V8

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

A heap 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

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
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