CVE-2010-0657 Information

Description

Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78 on Windows does not perform the expected encoding escaping and quoting for the URL in the –app argument in a desktop shortcut which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs or obtain sensitive information by tricking a user into creating a crafted shortcut.

Reference

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=23693 http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506 http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14306