CVE-2016-5219

Publication date 6 December 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A heap use after free in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libv8-3.14	18.10 cosmic	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored libv8 not supported
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored libv8 not supported
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
oxide-qt	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Fixed 1.19.6-0ubuntu2
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 1.19.6-0ubuntu2
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 1.19.4-0ubuntu0.16.10.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.19.4-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.19.4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
chromium-browser	18.10 cosmic	Fixed 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu1
	17.10 artful	Fixed 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu1
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu1
	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.10.1328
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu0.16.04.1263
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 58.0.3029.81-0ubuntu0.14.04.1172
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored
libv8	18.10 cosmic	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	17.10 artful	Not in release
	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

mikesalvatore

The Ubuntu Security Team does not support libv8

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3153-1
Oxide vulnerabilities
9 December 2016