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CVE-2016-1659 in the critical feed json

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have oth…

published 2016-04-18 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-2754

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have other impact 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-2016-1659

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-2016-1659 updated cvss 6.8

chromium-browser: various fixes from internal audits

  • 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

1.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

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