CVE-2016-5131

Publication date 23 July 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

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

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
libxml2

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

References

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