Buffer overflow in Opensuse and Debian Linux - CVE-2016-1624
Published: February 14, 2016 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40485
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1624
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: SUSE
Debian
Debian
Affected software:
Opensuse
Debian Linux
Opensuse
Debian Linux
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Integer underflow in the ProcessCommandsInternal function in dec/decode.c in Brotli, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.109, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted data with brotli compression.
How to mitigate CVE-2016-1624
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/02/stable-channel-update_9.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00104.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00119.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0241.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3486
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83125
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035183
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2895-1
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=583607
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1662313002
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09