CVE-2016-1670 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2016-1670?

CVE-2016-1670 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 14 May 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Race condition in the ResourceDispatcherHostImpl::BeginRequest function in content/browser/loader/resource_dispatcher_host_impl.cc in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.102 allows remote attackers to make arbitrary HTTP requests by leveraging access to a renderer process and reusing a request ID.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1670?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Google Chrome, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2016-1670?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-1670 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1670 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-5975-jwq3-jmm6, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1670.