CVE-2016-1624

Publication date 13 February 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Integer underflow in the ProcessCommandsInternal function in dec/decode.c in Brotli, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.109, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted data with brotli compression.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
brotli 17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.3.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1
15.10 wily Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
chromium-browser 17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 48.0.2564.116-0ubuntu1.1229
15.10 wily
Fixed 48.0.2564.116-0ubuntu0.15.10.1.1221
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life, was needed
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 48.0.2564.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1111
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
oxide-qt 17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.12.6-0ubuntu1
15.10 wily
Fixed 1.12.6-0ubuntu0.15.10.1
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life, was needed
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.12.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.8 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-2895-1
    • Oxide vulnerabilities
    • 18 February 2016

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