CVE-2016-1613

Severity: high (CVSS 7.6 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-25 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the formfiller implementation in PDFium, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.82, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted PDF document, related to improper tracking of the destruction of (1) IPWL_FocusHandler and (2) IPWL_Provider objects.

Affected products

Google Chrome: through 47.0.2526.106

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/01/stable-channel-update_20.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00035.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00036.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00046.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0072.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3456
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/81430
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034801
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=572871
https://codereview.chromium.org/1564773003
https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/dcac57bc8b64fdc870d79d11a498ae7021cf8ae7
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-09

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