CVE-2016-5177 (GCVE-0-2016-5177)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-23 03:56 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in V8 in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.143 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036970 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
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| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-1… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
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Date Public
2016-09-29 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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