CVE-2016-5208 (GCVE-0-2016-5208)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-19 05:43
Modified
2024-08-06 00:53
Severity ?
CWE
  • object corruption
Summary
Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Linux and Windows, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android allowed possible corruption of the DOM tree during synchronous event handling, which allowed a remote attacker to inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted HTML page.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Linux and Windows, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android Version: Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Linux and Windows, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android
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