CVE-2016-1648

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-29 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the GetLoadTimes function in renderer/loadtimes_extension_bindings.cc in the Extensions implementation in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.108 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted JavaScript code.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
Google Chrome: through 49.0.2623.95
Opensuse: 13.1

References

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update_24.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00039.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0525.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3531
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035423
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=590455
https://codereview.chromium.org/1751553002/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update_24.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00000.html

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