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CVE-2016-5131
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…
High8.8EPSS 2.3%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- Chrome
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (26)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358641 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT207141 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://crbug.com/623378 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1868 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1869 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2016-09-20 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2016-09-20-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- 92053 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/07/stable-channel-update.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2016-09-20-5 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- USN-3041-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1918 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://codereview.chromium.org/2127493002 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2016-09-20-6 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT207170 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201610-09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- GLSA-201701-37 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1865 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT207142 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://support.apple.com/HT207143 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:1485 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1038623 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1036428 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- DSA-3637 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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