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CVE-2016-1641

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2016-03-05 chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2016-1641
Phase Assigned(20160112)

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.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update.html
CONFIRM https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=583718
CONFIRM https://codereview.chromium.org/1730363003