vulnerability

Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-1649 Buffer overflow in libANGLE

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 29, 2016
Added
Mar 31, 2016
Modified
Aug 12, 2025

Description

The Program::getUniformInternal function in Program.cpp in libANGLE, as used in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.108, does not properly handle a certain data-type mismatch, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted shader stages.

Solution

google-chrome-upgrade-latest
Title
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