CVE-2016-1641 — Use After Free in Google Chrome

CWE-416 — Use After Free8 documents7 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.7%
top 17.47%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Google Chrome
Timeline
PublishedMar 6
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in content/browser/web_contents/web_contents_impl.cc in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.75 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering an image download after a certain data structure is deleted, as demonstrated by a favicon.ico download.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDgoogle/chrome48.0.2564.116

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-j724-2599-3m74: Use-after-free vulnerability in content/browser/web_contents/web_contents_impl↗2022-05-17
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OSV
oxide-qt vulnerabilities↗2016-03-10
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OSV
CVE-2016-1641: Use-after-free vulnerability in content/browser/web_contents/web_contents_impl↗2016-03-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Oxide vulnerabilities↗2016-03-10
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Red Hat
chromium-browser: use-after-free in Favicon↗2016-03-02
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-1641 chromium-browser: use-after-free in Favicon↗2016-03-03
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