CVE-2016-5131

Publication date 23 July 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Use-after-free vulnerability in libxml2 through 2.9.4, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	17.04 zesty	Fixed 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu1.1307
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu1.1307
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 52.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1250
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 52.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1134
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored
libxml2	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 2.9.4+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.2
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.9
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 2.7.8.dfsg-5.1ubuntu4.17
oxide-qt	17.04 zesty	Fixed 1.16.7-0ubuntu1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 1.16.7-0ubuntu1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.16.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.16.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
chromium-browser	Upstream: https://codereview.chromium.org/2127493002
libxml2	Upstream: ?id=9ab Upstream: ?id=a00

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVE-2016-5131

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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Patch details

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