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CVE-2016-7549 json

Google Chrome before 53.0.2785.113 does not ensure that the recipient of a certain IPC message is a valid RenderFrame or RenderWidget, whic…

published 2016-09-25 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8402

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.17.9-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • oxide-qt Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.17.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1142
  • chromium-browser Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 53.0.2785.143-0ubuntu0.16.04.1.1254

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7549

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • chromium-browser RHEL 6 EXTRAS 53.0.2785.113-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:1905

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-7549 updated cvss 5.3

chromium-browser: DoS via invalid recipient of IPC message

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 53.0.2785.113-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 53.0.2785.113-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) chromium-browser 53.0.2785.113-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1905

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

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Sources

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