Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201651980000000
Revision Date:2017-01-19Version:1
Title:CVE-2016-5198 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2016-5198
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • chromium-browser package in cosmic was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '55.0.2883.87-0ubuntu1').
  • OR libv8-3.14: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue (note: 'libv8 not supported').
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