CVE-2016-1641
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…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.88%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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 3.0
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.88% probability · 79th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- google/chrome
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
EPSS 1.9% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00028.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3507
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84008
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035185
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2920-1
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=583718
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1730363003
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00014.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00018.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00028.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3507
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/84008
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035185
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2920-1
- https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=583718
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1730363003
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.