CVE-2016-5221
published 2017-01-19CVE-2016-5221: Type confusion in libGLESv2 in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android possibly allowed a remote…
PriorityP428medium6.3CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUIRSUCLILAL
EPSS
1.08%
61.9th percentile
Type confusion in libGLESv2 in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android possibly allowed a remote attacker to bypass buffer validation via a crafted HTML page.
Affected
1 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| chrome | <= 54.0.2840.99 | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.06.3MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
osv6.3MEDIUM
vendor_redhat6.3MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu6.1MEDIUM
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Ubuntu
Oxide vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2016-12-09·CVSS 6.1
CVE-2016-5204 [MEDIUM] Oxide vulnerabilities
Title: Oxide vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Oxide.
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks,
read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information, spoof the
webview URL, bypass same origin restrictions, cause a denial of service
via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5204,
CVE-2016-5205, CVE-2016-5207, CVE-2016-5208, CVE-2016-5209, CVE-2016-5212,
CVE-2016-5215, CVE-2016-5222, CVE-2016-5224, CVE-2016-5225, CVE-2016-5226,
CVE-2016-9650, CVE-2016-9652)
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in
to opening a specially crafted website, an a
Red Hat
chromium-browser: integer overflow in angle
vendor_redhat·2016-12-01·CVSS 6.3
CVE-2016-5221 [MEDIUM] chromium-browser: integer overflow in angle
chromium-browser: integer overflow in angle
Type confusion in libGLESv2 in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android possibly allowed a remote attacker to bypass buffer validation via a crafted HTML page.
VulDB
Google Chrome up to 55 ANGLE integer overflow (RHSA-2016:2919 / Nessus ID 95661)
vuldb·2026-05-14·CVSS 6.3
CVE-2016-5221 [MEDIUM] Google Chrome up to 55 ANGLE integer overflow (RHSA-2016:2919 / Nessus ID 95661)
A vulnerability has been found in Google Chrome up to 55 and classified as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function of the component ANGLE. This manipulation causes integer overflow.
This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2016-5221. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.
The affected component should be upgraded.
GHSA
GHSA-2gj2-5v4g-j7xv: Type confusion in libGLESv2 in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 55
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2016-5221 [MEDIUM] CWE-190 GHSA-2gj2-5v4g-j7xv: Type confusion in libGLESv2 in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 55
Type confusion in libGLESv2 in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android possibly allowed a remote attacker to bypass buffer validation via a crafted HTML page.
OSV
oxide-qt vulnerabilities
osv·2016-12-09·CVSS 6.1
CVE-2016-5204 [MEDIUM] oxide-qt vulnerabilities
oxide-qt vulnerabilities
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks,
read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information, spoof the
webview URL, bypass same origin restrictions, cause a denial of service
via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5204,
CVE-2016-5205, CVE-2016-5207, CVE-2016-5208, CVE-2016-5209, CVE-2016-5212,
CVE-2016-5215, CVE-2016-5222, CVE-2016-5224, CVE-2016-5225, CVE-2016-5226,
CVE-2016-9650, CVE-2016-9652)
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in
to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially
exploit these to obtain sensitive
OSV
CVE-2016-5221: Type confusion in libGLESv2 in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 55
osv·2016-12-06·CVSS 6.3
CVE-2016-5221 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-5221: Type confusion in libGLESv2 in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 55
Type confusion in libGLESv2 in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android possibly allowed a remote attacker to bypass buffer validation via a crafted HTML page.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
chromium: various flaws [fedora-all]
bugzilla·2016-12-02·CVSS 8.8
[HIGH] chromium: various flaws [fedora-all]
chromium: various flaws [fedora-all]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of Fedora.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
NOTE: this issue affects multiple supported versions of Fedora. While only
one tracking bug has b
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5221 chromium-browser: integer overflow in angle
bugzilla·2016-12-02·CVSS 6.3
CVE-2016-5221 [MEDIUM] CVE-2016-5221 chromium-browser: integer overflow in angle
CVE-2016-5221 chromium-browser: integer overflow in angle
An integer overflow flaw was found in the ANGLE component of the Chromium browser.
Upstream bug(s):
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=660854
External References:
https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
Discussion:
Created chromium tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1400883]
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This issue has been addressed in the following products:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary
Via RHSA-2016:2919 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlhttps://crbug.com/660854https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlhttps://crbug.com/660854https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11
2017-01-19
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