CVE-2009-3933 Information

Description

WebKit before r50173 as used in Google Chrome before 3.0.195.32 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a web page that calls the JavaScript setInterval method which triggers an incompatibility between the WTF::currentTime and base::Time functions.

Reference

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25892 http://codereview.chromium.org/339039 http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/11/stable-channel-update.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/branches/195/src/webkit/webkit.gyp?r1=30311&r2=30310 http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=30311 http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/50173 http://www.osvdb.org/59745 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30833 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54297