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Ubuntu: USN-2992-1 (CVE-2016-1688): Oxide vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2992-1 (CVE-2016-1688): Oxide vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/05/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/06/2016
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

The regexp (aka regular expression) implementation in Google V8 before 5.0.71.40, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, mishandles external string sizes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted JavaScript code.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-liboxideqtcore0

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