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CVE-2016-5185

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

Blink in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.59 for Windows, Mac, and Linux; 54.0.2840.85 for Android incorrectly allowed reentrance of FrameView::updateLifecyclePhasesInternal(), which allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via crafted HTML pages.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 53.0.2785.143

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2067.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93528
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/621360
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2067.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93528
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/10/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/621360
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09

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