CVE-2016-1660

CVE-2016-1660 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Blink, the rendering engine used by Google Chrome versions prior to 50.0.2661.94, and also affects products from OpenSUSE and Red Hat. This flaw, stemming from mishandled assertions in internal Blink classes, allows remote attackers to trigger an out-of-bounds write via a crafted website. With a CVSS v3 score of 8.8 (High), it presents a significant risk of denial of service and potentially other unspecified impacts, requiring user interaction for exploitation. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, the vulnerability garnered notable community discussion and media coverage at the time of its disclosure.