VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-1683

high
Published 2016-06-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

numbers.c in libxslt before 1.1.29, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, mishandles namespace nodes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap memory access) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
redhat Red Hat Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
6.0 Affected —
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
42.1 Affected —
13.2 Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
16.04 Affected —
15.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.1.29-1
sid Fixed 1.1.29-1
forky Fixed 1.1.29-1
bullseye Fixed 1.1.29-1
bookworm Fixed 1.1.29-1
8.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
xmlsoftlibxslt{"endIncluding":"1.1.28"}
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"50.0.2661.102"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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