CVE-2016-5207

Publication date 6 December 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

In Blink in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android, corruption of the DOM tree could occur during the removal of a full screen element, which allowed a remote attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution via a crafted HTML page.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
chromium-browser	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
oxide-qt	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

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3153-1
Oxide vulnerabilities
9 December 2016