Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5198

8.8
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

V8 in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac included incorrect optimisation assumptions, which allowed a remote attacker to perform arbitrary read/write operations, leading to code execution, via a crafted HTML page.
Published Date January 19, 2017
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory