CVE-2016-7549 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1905.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93160 https://codereview.chromium.org/1534933002 https://crbug.com/556351 https://crbug.com/646394 https://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2016/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8