High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 6, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2016-1641
CVE-2016-1641
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.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
12- googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00014.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00015.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00018.htmlnvd
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00028.htmlnvd
- www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3507nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/84008nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1035185nvd
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2920-1nvd
- code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detailnvd
- codereview.chromium.org/1730363003nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09nvd
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