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CVE-2016-7549

Status: ModifiedHigh (8.8)—

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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Google — Chrome

CWEs

References

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