Google Chrome up to 55 Blink out-of-bounds write

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A vulnerability was found in Google Chrome up to 55 (Web Browser) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Blink. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds write vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-787. The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Bad casting in bitmap manipulation 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 potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

The bug was discovered 12/01/2016. The weakness was released 01/19/2017 by Abdulrahman Alqabandi (xisigr) with Qihoo 360 (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-5209 since 05/31/2016. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/01/2022). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 8 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 95661 (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 : oxide-qt vulnerabilities (USN-3153-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Ubuntu Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 236207 (Red Hat Update for Chromium-browser Security (RHSA-2016:2919)).

Upgrading to version 55.0.2883.75 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (95661). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 95480, 95481, 95482 and 95483.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 8.0
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.9

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Out-of-bounds write
CWE: CWE-787 / CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 95661
Nessus Name: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 16.10 : oxide-qt vulnerabilities (USN-3153-1)
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OpenVAS ID: 900236
OpenVAS Name: SuSE Update for Chromium openSUSE-SU-2016:3108-1 (Chromium)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Chrome 55.0.2883.75

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12/01/2016 +184 days 🔍
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01/19/2017 +41 days 🔍
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11/01/2022 +2112 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: google.com
Product: google.com

Advisory: USN-3153-1⛔
Researcher: Abdulrahman Alqabandi (xisigr)
Organization: Qihoo 360
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2016-5209 (🔍)
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SecurityFocus: 94633 - Google Chrome Prior to 55.0.2883.75 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: - CVE-2016-5209 - Google - Chrome - Out-of-Bounds Write Issue

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Entryinfo

Created: 01/19/2017 09:41
Updated: 11/01/2022 11:35
Changes: 01/19/2017 09:41 (77), 07/24/2020 15:05 (10), 11/01/2022 11:27 (3), 11/01/2022 11:35 (1)
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