CVE-2016-1650

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-03-29 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The PageCaptureSaveAsMHTMLFunction::ReturnFailure function in browser/extensions/api/page_capture/page_capture_api.cc in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.108 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering an error in creating an MHTML document.

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://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=401364
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=597518
https://codereview.chromium.org/1761303003/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/03/stable-channel-update_24.html

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