CVE-2010-0659 Information

Description

The image decoder in WebKit before r52833 as used in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78 does not properly handle a failure of memory allocation which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the Chrome sandbox via a malformed GIF file that specifies a large size.

Reference

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28566 http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506 http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/52833 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33231 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14079