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CVE-2016-1624

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2016-03-08 brotli -- buffer overflow

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2016-1624
Phase Assigned(20160112)

Description

Integer underflow in the ProcessCommandsInternal function in dec/decode.c in Brotli, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.109, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted data with brotli compression.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/02/stable-channel-update_9.html
CONFIRM https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=583607
CONFIRM https://codereview.chromium.org/1662313002
DEBIAN DSA-3486
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2016:0518