CVE-2016-1641: google chrome
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2016-1641 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in google chrome. EPSS estimates a 1.88% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79.5% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 8.8, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 6 · Related 3Timeline
- 06-03-2016PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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 metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
1.88%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
80%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 1.88% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu2 products
- chromium-browser< 49.0.2623.87-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1112
- oxide-qt< 1.13.6-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
Google1 product
- chrome≤ 48.0.2564.116
2 vendors · 3 products
References
16 links- codereview.chromium.org/1730363003X Refsource CONFIRM
- code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=583718X Refsource CONFIRM
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- googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM