CVE-2016-5198

Name	CVE-2016-5198
Description	V8 in Google Chrome prior to 54.0.2840.90 for Linux, and 54.0.2840.85 for Android, and 54.0.2840.87 for Windows and Mac included incorrect optimisation assumptions, which allowed a remote attacker to perform arbitrary read/write operations, leading to code execution, via a crafted HTML page.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-3731-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
chromium-browser (PTS)	jessie, jessie (lts)	57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1	fixed
	stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch	71.0.3578.80-1~deb9u1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin
chromium-browser	source	wheezy	(unfixed)	end-of-life
chromium-browser	source	jessie	55.0.2883.75-1~deb8u1		DSA-3731-1
chromium-browser	source	(unstable)	54.0.2840.101-1
libv8	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant

[wheezy] - chromium-browser <end-of-life> (Not supported in Wheezy)
libv8 not covered by security support