Medium severity6.1NVD Advisory· Published Jan 19, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-5204

Description

Leaking of an SVG shadow tree leading to corruption of the DOM tree in Blink 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 inject arbitrary scripts or HTML (UXSS) via a crafted HTML page.

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Affected products

Google/Chrome2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:google:chrome:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=54.0.2840.99
- (no CPE)range: <55.0.2883.75
osv-coords2 versions
pkg:rpm/opensuse/chromium&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/suse/chromium&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2012%20SP2
< 55.0.2883.75-3.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 55.0.2883.75-3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 55.0.2883.75-2.1

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

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/630870nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11nvd

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