Heap Corruption Vulnerability in V8 Engine of Google Chrome

CVE-2016-5200 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

V8 in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.98 for Mac, and 54.0.2840.99 for Windows, and 54.0.2840.100 for Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android incorrectly applied type rules, which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

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