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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-1634 Use-after-free in Blink

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-1634 Use-after-free in Blink

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/05/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/10/2016
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the StyleResolver::appendCSSStyleSheet function in WebKit/Source/core/css/resolver/StyleResolver.cpp in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.75, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted web site that triggers Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) style invalidation during a certain subtree-removal action.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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