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CVE-2016-1655

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.75 does not properly consider that frame removal may occur during callback execution, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted extension.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Google Chrome: through 49.0.2623.112
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12.0

References

• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00040.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00041.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00049.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00050.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0638.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3549
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2955-1
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1642283002
• https://crbug.com/582008
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02
• http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_13.html

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