Microsoft security update for CVE-2016-7208 — Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products5
- Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows 10 Version 1511 for 32-bit Systems
- Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows 10 Version 1511 for x64-based Systems
- Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems
- Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows 10 Version 1607 for x64-based Systems
- Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based) on Windows Server 2016
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 KB articles
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2016-7208
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.5 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
The Chakra JavaScript scripting engine in Microsoft Edge allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted web site, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-7200, CVE-2016-7201, CVE-2016-7202, CVE-2016-7203, CVE-2016-7240, CVE-2016-7242, and CVE-2016-7243.
Published by Microsoft Corporation, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2016-7208, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).