CVE-2016-1654

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% 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-20

Description

The media subsystem in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 does not initialize an unspecified data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read operation) via unknown vectors.

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://crbug.com/589512
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html

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