High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 19, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2016-5203

Description

A use after free in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted PDF file.

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2919.htmlnvd
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94633nvd
chromereleases.googleblog.com/2016/12/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.htmlnvd
crbug.com/644219nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11nvd

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