CVE-2016-1641: Google Chrome

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in content/browser/web_contents/web_contents_impl.cc in Google Chrome before 49.0.2623.75 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering an image download after a certain data structure is deleted, as demonstrated by a favicon.ico download.

Affected products

• Google Chrome: up to and including 48.0.2564.116

Published 2016-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.