CVE-2016-1653: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The LoadBuffer implementation in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75, mishandles data types, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code that triggers an out-of-bounds write operation, related to compiler/pipeline.cc and compiler/simplified-lowering.cc.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Google Chrome: up to and including 49.0.2623.112
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise: version 12.0 only

Published 2016-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.