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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2016-5131
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2016-5131
Aliases
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 8.8
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00006.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00008.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00010.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00011.html
https://support.apple.com/HT207141
https://support.apple.com/HT207142
https://support.apple.com/HT207143
https://support.apple.com/HT207170
1036428 Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036428
1038623 Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038623
2017-05-01 Other https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-05-01
2127493002 Other https://codereview.chromium.org/2127493002
623378 Other https://crbug.com/623378
92053 Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92053
dsa-3637 Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3637
GLSA-201610-09 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-09
GLSA-201701-37 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-37
msg00020.html Advisory http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00020.html
msg00021.html Advisory http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00021.html
msg00022.html Advisory http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00022.html
msg00028.html Advisory http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00028.html
RHSA-2016-1485.html Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1485.html
show_bug.cgi?id=1358641 Other https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358641
stable-channel-update.html Other http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/07/stable-channel-update.html
USN-3041-1 Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3041-1
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at None
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none


Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-04T16:49:18Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-12-04T16:49:18Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2016/5xxx/CVE-2016-5131.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2016-5131

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[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'total'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]