Medium severity6.3NVD Advisory· Published Jan 19, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-5221

Description

Type confusion in libGLESv2 in ANGLE in Google Chrome prior to 55.0.2883.75 for Mac, Windows and Linux, and 55.0.2883.84 for Android possibly allowed a remote attacker to bypass buffer validation 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/660854nvd
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-11nvd

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