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CVE-2016-1654 json

The media subsystem in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 does not initialize an unspecified data structure, which allows remote attackers t…

published 2016-04-18 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-2749

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.2%
EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 68%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The media subsystem in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 does not initialize an unspecified data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read operation) via unknown vectors.

Patch / fix

  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.14.7-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.14.7-0ubuntu1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 50.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1117
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 50.0.2661.102-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1237

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1654

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 50.0.2661.75-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:0638

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 55.0.2883.75-3.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-1654 updated cvss 4.3

chromium-browser: uninitialized memory read in media

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 50.0.2661.75-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 50.0.2661.75-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 50.0.2661.75-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:0638

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.