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What is CVE-2016-1654?

CVE-2016-1654 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 18 Apr 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The media subsystem in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 does not initialize an unspecified data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read operation) via unknown vectors.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1654?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Google Chrome, Opensuse Leap, Suse Linux Enterprise.

How do I fix CVE-2016-1654?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-1654 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1654 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-2prq-w3xp-938f, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1654.