Timing Attack Exploiting Denormalized Floating Point Arithmetic in SVG Filters in Google Chrome

Timing Attack Exploiting Denormalized Floating Point Arithmetic in SVG Filters in Google Chrome

CVE-2016-5224 · MEDIUM Severity

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

A timing attack on denormalized floating point arithmetic in SVG filters in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android allowed a remote attacker to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a crafted HTML page.

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