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CVE-2016-7549

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-09-25 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113 does not ensure that the recipient of a certain IPC message is a valid RenderFrame or RenderWidget, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging access to a renderer process, related to render_frame_host_impl.cc and render_widget_host_impl.cc, as demonstrated by a Password Manager message.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: through 53.0.2785.101

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1905.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93160
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1534933002
• https://crbug.com/556351
• https://crbug.com/646394
• https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1905.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93160
• https://codereview.chromium.org/1534933002
• https://crbug.com/556351
• https://crbug.com/646394
• https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html

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