CVE-2016-1653

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The LoadBuffer implementation in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75, mishandles data types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that triggers an out-of-bounds write operation, related to compiler/pipeline.cc and compiler/simplified-lowering.cc.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: through 49.0.2623.112
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12.0

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00041.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00049.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00050.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3549
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2955-1
https://codereview.chromium.org/1740123002
https://crbug.com/589792
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html

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