Use After Free Affecting chromium-browser package, versions <0:49.0.2623.75-1.el6


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.89% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-CHROMIUMBROWSER-1504025
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Mar 2016

Introduced: 2 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-1641  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 chromium-browser to version 0:49.0.2623.75-1.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:0359.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chromium-browser package and not the chromium-browser package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

Use-after-free vulnerability in content/browser/web_contents/web_contents_impl.cc in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.75 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering an image download after a certain data structure is deleted, as demonstrated by a favicon.ico download.

CVSS Base Scores

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