CVE-2016-1708
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
The Chrome Web Store inline-installation implementation in the Extensions subsystem in Google Chrome before 52.0.2743.82 does not properly consider object lifetimes during progress observation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted web site.
CVSS Metrics
- v3.0•HIGH•Score: 8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 1.52%• Percentile: 82%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-416•Use After Free
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
Affected Systems
- google•chrome
≤ 51.0.2704.106
References (11)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00022.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92053
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/07/stable-channel-update.html
- https://crbug.com/613949
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00028.html
- https://codereview.chromium.org/2103663002
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00020.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1485.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036428
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3637