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CVE-2016-1661
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.0 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: 2016-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-20
Description
Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.94, does not ensure that frames satisfy a check for the same renderer process in addition to a Same Origin Policy check, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted web site, related to BindingSecurity.cpp and DOMWindow.cpp.
Affected products
- Google Chrome: through 50.0.2661.87
- Opensuse: 13.1
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary: 6.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary: 6.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary Eus: 6.7z
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary: 6.0
References
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/04/stable-channel-update_28.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00003.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00048.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0707.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3564
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/89106
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2960-1
- https://codereview.chromium.org/1887553002/
- https://crbug.com/601629
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02
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