CVE-2016-1691: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Skia, as used in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63, mishandles coincidence runs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted curves, related to SkOpCoincidence.cpp and SkPathOpsCommon.cpp.

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 50.0.2661.102
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise: version 12.0 only

Published 2016-06-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.