CVE-2016-1691

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    CVE-2016-1691

    Published: 5 Jun 2016Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Skia, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, mishandles coincidence runs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted curves, related to SkOpCoincidence.cpp and SkPathOpsCommon.cpp.

    References: https://codereview.chromium.org/1854333002/, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00062.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90876, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035981, https://crbug.com/597926, , http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00063.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00005.html, http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2992-1, http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3590, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1190, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-07, http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/05/stable-channel-update_25.html

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High