vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-1678: Important: chromium-browser security update (RHSA-2016:1190)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 1, 2016
Added
Jun 1, 2016
Modified
Jan 17, 2018

Description

objects.cc in Google V8 before 5.0.71.32, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, does not properly restrict lazy deoptimization, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code.

Solutions

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