CVE-2016-1624

high

Published 2016-02-14 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

8.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

Integer underflow in the ProcessCommandsInternal function in dec/decode.c in Brotli, as used in Google Chrome before 48.0.2564.109, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted data with brotli compression.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.1	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.3.0+dfsg-3`
sid	Fixed	`0.3.0+dfsg-3`
forky	Fixed	`0.3.0+dfsg-3`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.3.0+dfsg-3`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.3.0+dfsg-3`
8.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
google	chrome	`{"endIncluding":"48.0.2564.103"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.