CVE-2016-5131: Apple iPhone OS

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in libxml2 through 2.9.4, as used in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to the XPointer range-to function.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: before 10.0 (fixed in 10.0)
• Apple Mac OS X: before 10.12 (fixed in 10.12)
• Apple tvOS: before 10.0 (fixed in 10.0)
• Apple watchOS: before 3.0 (fixed in 3.0)
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Google Chrome: before 52.0.2743.82 (fixed in 52.0.2743.82)
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; 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
• Xmlsoft LIBXML2: up to and including 2.9.4

Published 2016-07-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.