CVE-2016-5131

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2016-07-20
Bugzilla:
1358641: CVE-2016-5131 chromium-browser: use-after-free in libxml

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Use-after-free vulnerability in libxml2 through 2.9.4, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function.

Find out more about CVE-2016-5131 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 8.8
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat JBoss Core Services 1 RHSA-2018:2486 2018-08-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary (v. 6) (chromium-browser) RHSA-2016:1485 2016-07-26

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 libxml2 Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libxml2 Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 libxml2 Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 libxml2 Will not fix

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