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CVE-2016-1649

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-03-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The Program::getUniformInternal function in Program.cpp in libANGLE, as used in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.108, does not properly handle a certain data-type mismatch, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted shader stages.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
• 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
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2955-1
• http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-224
• https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/334448
• https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=595836
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02

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