CVE-2016-1654: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The media subsystem in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 does not initialize an unspecified data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid read operation) via unknown vectors.

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.