CVE-2010-1236 Information

Description

The protocolIs function in platform/KURLGoogle.cpp in WebCore in WebKit before r55822 as used in Google Chrome before 4.1.249.1036 and Flock Browser 3.x before 3.0.0.4112 does not properly handle whitespace at the beginning of a URL which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted javascript: URL as demonstrated by a \x00javascript:alert sequence.

Reference

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=37383 http://codereview.chromium.org/858001 http://flock.com/security/ http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/03/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?view=rev&revision=41244 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35948 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A14067