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CVE-2016-5172

The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which...

6.5 MediumFix available

The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
Required

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Exploit likelihood

1.86%Up 0.5 points since Feb 4, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 6.5

The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code.

Record
CVE-2016-5172
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0
4.3 MediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code.

Record
CVE-2016-5172
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2016-6123 No score

The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code.

Record
EUVD-2016-6123
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-9g2q-xpx4-5592 6.5

The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which...

The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code.

Record
GHSA-9g2q-xpx4-5592
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-200
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 6.5

The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code.

Record
CVE-2016-5172
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVRHSA-2016:1905 8.8

Red Hat Security Advisory: chromium-browser security update

Record
RHSA-2016:1905
CVSS 3.0
8.8 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2016-5172 6.5

The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5172
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.0
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2016-0309 No score

Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerability

Blink, as used in Chromium before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, mishandles deferred page loads, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted web site, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)." (CVE-2016-5147)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Blink, as used in Chromium before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to widget updates, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)." (CVE-2016-5148)

The extensions subsystem in Chromium before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux relies on an IFRAME source URL to identify an associated extension, which allows remote attackers to conduct extension-bindings injection attacks by leveraging script access to a resource that initially has the about:blank URL. (CVE-2016-5149)

WebKit/Source/bindings/modules/v8/V8BindingForModules.cpp in Blink, as used in Chromium before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, has an Indexed Database (aka IndexedDB) API implementation that does not properly restrict key-path evaluation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that leverages certain side effects. (CVE-2016-5150)

PDFium in Chromium before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux mishandles timers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document, related to fpdfsdk/javascript/JS_Object.cpp and fpdfsdk/javascript/app.cpp. (CVE-2016-5151)

Integer overflow in the opj_tcd_get_decoded_tile_size function in tcd.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Chromium before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JPEG 2000 data. (CVE-2016-5152)

The Web Animations implementation in Blink, as used in Chromium before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, improperly relies on list iteration, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-destruction) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted web site. (CVE-2016-5153)

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in PDFium, as used in Chromium before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted JBig2 image. (CVE-2016-5154)

Chromium before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux does not properly validate access to the initial document, which allows remote attackers to spoof the address bar via a crafted web site. (CVE-2016-5155)

extensions/renderer/event_bindings.cc in the event bindings in Chromium before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux attempts to process filtered events after failure to add an event matcher, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. (CVE-2016-5156)

Heap-based buffer overflow in the opj_dwt_interleave_v function in dwt.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Chromium before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted coordinate values in JPEG 2000 data. (CVE-2016-5157)

Multiple integer overflows in the opj_tcd_init_tile function in tcd.c in OpenJPEG, as used in PDFium in Chromium before 53.0.2785.89 on Windows and OS X and before 53.0.2785.92 on Linux, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JPEG 2000 data. (CVE-2016-5158) …

Record
MGASA-2016-0309
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2016:2309-1 No score

Recommended update for chromium

Chromium was updated to 53.0.2785.113 to fix a number of security issues and bugs.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-5170: Use after free in Blink
  • CVE-2016-5171: Use after free in Blink
  • CVE-2016-5172: Arbitrary Memory Read in v8
  • CVE-2016-5173: Extension resource access
  • CVE-2016-5174: Popup not correctly suppressed
  • CVE-2016-5175: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

The following upstream fixes are included:

  • SPDY crasher fixes
  • Disable NV12 DXGI video on AMD
  • Forward --password-store switch to os_crypt
  • Tell the kernel to discard USB requests when they time out.
  • disallow WKBackForwardListItem navigations for pushState pages
  • arc: bluetooth: Fix advertised uuid
  • fix conflicting PendingIntent for stop button and swipe away

The widevine plugin was re-enabled (boo#998328).

Record
openSUSE-SU-2016:2309-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2016:2311-1 No score

Recommended update for chromium

Chromium was updated to 53.0.2785.113 to fix a number of security issues and bugs.

The following vulnerabilities were fixed:

  • CVE-2016-5170: Use after free in Blink
  • CVE-2016-5171: Use after free in Blink
  • CVE-2016-5172: Arbitrary Memory Read in v8
  • CVE-2016-5173: Extension resource access
  • CVE-2016-5174: Popup not correctly suppressed
  • CVE-2016-5175: Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives.

The following upstream fixes are included:

  • SPDY crasher fixes
  • Disable NV12 DXGI video on AMD
  • Forward --password-store switch to os_crypt
  • Tell the kernel to discard USB requests when they time out.
  • disallow WKBackForwardListItem navigations for pushState pages
  • arc: bluetooth: Fix advertised uuid
  • fix conflicting PendingIntent for stop button and swipe away

The widevine plugin was re-enabled (boo#998328).

Record
openSUSE-SU-2016:2311-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1 No score

chromedriver-55.0.2883.75-3.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the chromedriver-55.0.2883.75-3.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 No score

ungoogled-chromium-113.0.5672.92-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the ungoogled-chromium-113.0.5672.92-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2019:14246-1 No score

Security update for Mozilla Firefox

This update contains the Mozilla Firefox ESR 68.2 release.

Mozilla Firefox was updated to ESR 68.2 release:

  • Enterprise: New administrative policies were added. More information and templates are available at the Policy Templates page.

  • Various security fixes: MFSA 2019-33 (bsc#1154738)

    • CVE-2019-15903: Heap overflow in expat library in XML_GetCurrentLineNumber
    • CVE-2019-11757: Use-after-free when creating index updates in IndexedDB
    • CVE-2019-11758: Potentially exploitable crash due to 360 Total Security
    • CVE-2019-11759: Stack buffer overflow in HKDF output
    • CVE-2019-11760: Stack buffer overflow in WebRTC networking
    • CVE-2019-11761: Unintended access to a privileged JSONView object
    • CVE-2019-11762: document.domain-based origin isolation has same-origin- property violation
    • CVE-2019-11763: Incorrect HTML parsing results in XSS bypass technique
    • CVE-2019-11764: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 70 and Firefox ESR 68.2

Other Issues resolved:

  • [bsc#1104841] Newer versions of firefox have a dependency on GLIBCXX_3.4.20
  • [bsc#1074235] MozillaFirefox: background tab crash reports sent inadvertently without user opt-in
  • [bsc#1043008] Firefox hangs randomly when browsing and scrolling
  • [bsc#1025108] Firefox stops loading page until mouse is moved
  • [bsc#905528] Firefox malfunctions due to broken omni.ja archives
Record
SUSE-SU-2019:14246-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVUSN-3091-1 No score

oxide-qt vulnerabilities

A use-after-free was discovered in the V8 bindings in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5170)

A use-after-free was discovered in the V8 bindings in Blink. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5171)

An issue was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to ontain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations. (CVE-2016-5172)

Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to read uninitialized memory, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5175, CVE-2016-5178)

A use-after-free was discovered in V8. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5177)

It was discovered that Chromium does not ensure the recipient of a certain IPC message is a valid RenderFrame or RenderWidget. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitary code. (CVE-2016-7549)

Record
USN-3091-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
chromium-browser
Debian:8
before 53.0.2785.113-1~deb8u1, plus listed versions
41.0.2272.118-142.0.2311.135-142.0.2311.135-1~deb8u142.0.2311.135-242.0.2311.90-1
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42.0.2311.90-1~deb8u142.0.2311.90-243.0.2357.124-143.0.2357.124-243.0.2357.124-343.0.2357.130-143.0.2357.65-143.0.2357.65-1~deb8u143.0.2357.81-144.0.2403.107-144.0.2403.107-244.0.2403.157-144.0.2403.89-144.0.2403.89-1~deb8u145.0.2454.101-145.0.2454.85-145.0.2454.85-1~deb8u146.0.2490.13-146.0.2490.71-146.0.2490.71-1~deb8u147.0.2526.111-147.0.2526.16-147.0.2526.73-147.0.2526.73-1~deb8u147.0.2526.80-147.0.2526.80-1~deb8u147.0.2526.80-247.0.2526.80-348.0.2564.116-148.0.2564.116-1~deb8u148.0.2564.23-148.0.2564.82-148.0.2564.82-1~deb8u148.0.2564.82-249.0.2623.108-149.0.2623.108-1~deb8u149.0.2623.108-249.0.2623.75-149.0.2623.75-1~deb8u149.0.2623.75-249.0.2623.87-149.0.2623.87-1~deb8u150.0.2661.75-150.0.2661.75-1~deb8u150.0.2661.75-2
53.0.2785.113-1~deb8u1
chromium-browser-stable
Mageia:5
before 53.0.2785.113-1.mga5
53.0.2785.113-1.mga5
chromium-browser
Red Hat:rhel_extras:6
before 0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6
0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6
chromium-browser-debuginfo
Red Hat:rhel_extras:6
before 0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6
0:53.0.2785.113-1.el6
MozillaFirefox
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
before 68.2.0-78.51.4
68.2.0-78.51.4
MozillaFirefox-branding-SLED
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
before 68-21.9.8
68-21.9.8
firefox-atk
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
before 2.26.1-2.8.4
2.26.1-2.8.4
firefox-cairo
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
before 1.15.10-2.13.4
1.15.10-2.13.4
firefox-gdk-pixbuf
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
before 2.36.11-2.8.4
2.36.11-2.8.4
firefox-glib2
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
before 2.54.3-2.14.7
2.54.3-2.14.7
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
firefox-gtk3
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
before 3.10.9-2.15.3
3.10.9-2.15.3
firefox-harfbuzz
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
before 1.7.5-2.7.4
1.7.5-2.7.4
firefox-libffi
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
before 3.2.1.git259-2.3.3
3.2.1.git259-2.3.3
firefox-libffi-gcc5
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
before 5.3.1+r233831-14.1
5.3.1+r233831-14.1
firefox-pango
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
before 1.40.14-2.7.4
1.40.14-2.7.4
mozilla-nspr
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
before 4.21-29.6.1
4.21-29.6.1
mozilla-nss
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS
before 3.45-38.9.3
3.45-38.9.3
chromium-browser
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1142, plus listed versions
29.0.1547.65-0ubuntu231.0.1650.63-0ubuntu1~20131204.132.0.1700.107-0ubuntu1~20140204.977.133.0.1750.152-0ubuntu1~pkg995.134.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2
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36.0.1985.125-0ubuntu1.14.04.0~pkg102937.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg104237.0.2062.120-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg104938.0.2125.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.106139.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.106440.0.2214.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.106840.0.2214.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.106941.0.2272.76-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.107643.0.2357.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.108943.0.2357.130-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.109244.0.2403.89-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.109545.0.2454.85-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.109745.0.2454.101-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.109947.0.2526.73-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.110647.0.2526.106-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.110748.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.110848.0.2564.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.111149.0.2623.87-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.111249.0.2623.108-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.111350.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.111751.0.2704.79-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.112152.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1134
53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1142
oxide-qt
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS
before 1.17.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, plus listed versions
1.0.0~bzr437-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr452-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr475-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr490-0ubuntu11.0.0~bzr501-0ubuntu1
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1.0.0~bzr501-0ubuntu21.0.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.0.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.1.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.2.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.3.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.4.2-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.4.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.5.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.31.5.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.21.6.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.6.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.7.8-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.7.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.8.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.21.9.1-0ubuntu0.14.04.21.9.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.10.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.11.3-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.11.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.12.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.12.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.12.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.13.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.14.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.14.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.15.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.15.8-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.16.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.11.17.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
1.17.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
chromium-browser
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1254, plus listed versions
45.0.2454.101-0ubuntu1.120147.0.2526.73-0ubuntu1.121847.0.2526.106-0ubuntu1.122148.0.2564.82-0ubuntu1.122248.0.2564.116-0ubuntu1.1229
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49.0.2623.87-0ubuntu1.123249.0.2623.108-0ubuntu1.123350.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.123751.0.2704.79-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.124252.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1250
53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1254
oxide-qt
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
before 1.17.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, plus listed versions
1.9.5-0ubuntu11.10.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.11.10.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.21.11.3-0ubuntu31.11.4-0ubuntu1
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1.11.5-0ubuntu11.12.5-0ubuntu11.12.6-0ubuntu11.12.7-0ubuntu11.13.6-0ubuntu11.14.7-0ubuntu11.14.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.15.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.15.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.16.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.11.17.7-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
1.17.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
chromium
SUSE:Package Hub 12
before 53.0.2785.113-100.1
53.0.2785.113-100.1
chromium
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 55.0.2883.75-3.1
55.0.2883.75-3.1
chromium
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 113.0.5672.92-1.1
113.0.5672.92-1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2016-5172 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Google Chrome, published September 14, 2016. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.86%, the 79th percentile. Fixed in chromium-browser 53.0.2785.113-1~deb8u1.

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