CVE - CVE-2016-1706

CVE-ID
CVE-2016-1706	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The PPAPI implementation in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82 does not validate the origin of IPC messages to the plugin broker process that should have come from the browser process, which allows remote attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism via an unexpected message type, related to broker_process_dispatcher.cc, ppapi_plugin_process_host.cc, ppapi_thread.cc, and render_frame_message_filter.cc.
References
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CONFIRM:http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/07/stable-channel-update.html CONFIRM:https://codereview.chromium.org/2069853002/ CONFIRM:https://crbug.com/610600 DEBIAN:DSA-3637 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3637 REDHAT:RHSA-2016:1485 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1485.html SECTRACK:1036428 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036428 SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2016:1865 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00020.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2016:1868 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00021.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2016:1869 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00022.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2016:1918 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00028.html UBUNTU:USN-3041-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3041-1
Assigning CNA
Chrome
Date Record Created
20160112	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20160112)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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