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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-1690 Heap use-after-free in Autofill

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Google Chrome Vulnerability: CVE-2016-1690 Heap use-after-free in Autofill

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/05/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/09/2016
Modified
11/08/2023

Description

The Autofill implementation in Google Chrome before 51.0.2704.63 mishandles the interaction between field updates and JavaScript code that triggers a frame deletion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted web site, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1701.

Solution(s)

  • google-chrome-upgrade-latest

References

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