CVE-2016-1649: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Google Chrome: up to and including 49.0.2623.95
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only

Published 2016-03-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.