CVE-2016-1635 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2016-1635?

CVE-2016-1635 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Google Chrome, published on 6 Mar 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

extensions/renderer/render_frame_observer_natives.cc in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.75 does not properly consider object lifetimes and re-entrancy issues during OnDocumentElementCreated handling, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1635?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2016-1635?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2016-1635 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1635 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-cp99-fcgg-38vc, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1635.