Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or other impact

Use-after-free vulnerability in Google Chrome allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or other impact

CVE-2016-1641 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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