KLA10878 Denial of service vulnerability in Google Chrome

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.143. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service or possibly conduct other unknown impacts.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. Use-after-free vulnerability in V8 can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service or possibly conduct other unspecified impacts;
2. Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely to cause a denial of service or possibly conduct other unspecified impacts.

Original advisories

Google Chrome releases blog entry

Related products

Google-Chrome

CVE list

CVE-2016-5177 high

CVE-2016-5178 critical

Solution

Update to the latest version. File with name old_chrome can be still detected after update. It caused by Google Chrome update policy which does not remove old versions when installing updates. Try to contact vendor for further delete instructions or ignore such kind of alerts at your own risk.

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Impacts

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

• SB

Security bypass. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing actions restricted by current security settings.

Affected Products

• Google Chrome versions earlier than 53.0.2785.143 (All branches)