CVE-2016-5178

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-05-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.143 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 24, 25
Google Chrome: through 53.0.2785.129
openSUSE Leap: 42.1
Opensuse: 13.2
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary: 6.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary: 6.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-10/msg00001.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2007.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3683
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93238
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036970
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=645028
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=651092
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380632
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_29.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6FWZVE5PX27FWPLGOPDA7ZC5MILOWN6K/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UNUTOWCXLWVXOTGQUS53DSRVTO3J226Z/

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