CVE-2016-7549
high
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
8.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| chrome | {"endIncluding":"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
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.