PT-2016-4891 · Opera+4 · Opera+4

Published 2016-04-28 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-1662

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 50.0.2661.94 Opera (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the gc callback.cc file in the extensions/renderer directory, which does not prevent fallback execution once the Garbage Collection callback has started. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions prior to 50.0.2661.94, update to version 50.0.2661.94 or later to resolve the issue. For Opera, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-2194

CVE-2016-1662

DSA-3564-1

MGASA-2016-0160

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1208-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1209-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_1655-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1

RHSA-2016:0707

RHSA-2016_0707

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Google Chrome

Opera

Red Hat

Suse

References · 2357

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1662 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0160.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1662 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1662 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0160 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-02 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3564-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1662 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1662 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3564 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10171-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00003.html · Vendor Advisory