USN-3091-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5170)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2016-10-07 14:21 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:36 – Source website
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oxide-qt vulnerabilities
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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)

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  "id": "USN-3091-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:33Z",
  "published": "2016-10-07T14:21:05Z",
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