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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2016-1653 json

The LoadBuffer implementation in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75, mishandles data types, which allows remote attack…

published 2016-04-18 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-2748

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The LoadBuffer implementation in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75, mishandles data types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that triggers an out-of-bounds write operation, related to compiler/pipeline.cc and compiler/simplified-lowering.cc.

Patch / fix

  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.14.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.14.7-0ubuntu1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 50.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1117
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 50.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1237

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1653

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 50.0.2661.75-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:0638

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 55.0.2883.75-3.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-1653 updated cvss 6.8

chromium-browser: out-of-bounds write in V8

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 50.0.2661.75-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 50.0.2661.75-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 50.0.2661.75-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0638

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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