CVE-2016-1706 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2016-1706 PUBLISHED

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.

EPSS 1.44% · 80.6th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

1.44%

80.6th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	chromium-browser	39.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064, 40.0.2214.111-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1069, 41.0.2272.76-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1076
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	chromium-browser	47.0.2526.106-0ubuntu1.1221, 48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu1.1222, 48.0.2564.116-0ubuntu1.1229
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	oxide-qt	1.12.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1, 0, 1.0.0~bzr437-0ubuntu1
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS	oxide-qt	0, 1.9.5-0ubuntu1, 1.10.3-0ubuntu0.15.10.1

Timeline

Jul 23, 2016 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
Mar 28, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1706 third-party-advisory
https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/07/stable-channel-update.html third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3041-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1706 third-party-advisory

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