VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-1688

medium
Published 2016-06-05 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

The regexp (aka regular expression) implementation in Google V8 before 5.0.71.40, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, mishandles external string sizes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted JavaScript code.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
debian Debian Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
8.0 Affected —
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 —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endIncluding":"50.0.2661.102"}
gcp googlev8{"endIncluding":"5.0.71"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.