CVE-2016-1683

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-06-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: through 50.0.2661.102
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.2
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12.0
xmlsoft libxslt: through 1.1.28

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/05/stable-channel-update_25.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00003.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Jul/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00062.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00063.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00005.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3590
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3605
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90876

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