CVE-2016-1706

Publication date 23 July 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.6 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

The PPAPI implementation in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82 does not validate the origin of IPC messages to the plugin broker process that should have come from the browser process, which allows remote attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via an unexpected message type, related to broker_process_dispatcher.cc, ppapi_plugin_process_host.cc, ppapi_thread.cc, and render_frame_message_filter.cc.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
chromium-browser 16.10 yakkety
Fixed 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu1.1307
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 52.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1250
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 52.0.2743.116-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1134
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
oxide-qt 16.10 yakkety
Fixed 1.16.7-0ubuntu1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.16.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.16.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.6 · Critical

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

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