CVE-2016-7549
Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113 does not ensure that the recipient of a certain IPC message is a valid RenderFrame or RenderWidget, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and application crash) or…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.07%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113 does not ensure that the recipient of a certain IPC message is a valid RenderFrame or RenderWidget, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging access to a renderer process, related to render_frame_host_impl.cc and render_widget_host_impl.cc, as demonstrated by a Password Manager message.
- 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
- 1.07% probability · 63th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- google/chrome
- Source
- chrome-cve-admin@google.com
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1905.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93160
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1534933002
- https://crbug.com/556351
- https://crbug.com/646394
- https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1905.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93160
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1534933002
- https://crbug.com/556351
- https://crbug.com/646394
- https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.