CVE-2016-5172: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The parser in Google V8, as used in Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113, mishandles scopes, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from arbitrary memory locations via crafted JavaScript code.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Google Chrome: up to and including 53.0.2785.101
• Node.js Node.js: from 6.0.0, up to and including 6.8.1

Published 2016-09-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.