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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5129 Memory corruption in V8

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-5129 Memory corruption in V8

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/23/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/02/2016
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Google V8 before 5.2.361.32, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82, does not properly process left-trimmed objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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