CVE-2010-1766 Information

Description

Off-by-one error in the WebSocketHandshake::readServerHandshake function in websockets/WebSocketHandshake.cpp in WebCore in WebKit before r56380 as used in Qt and other products allows remote websockets servers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an upgrade header that is long and invalid.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044023.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-July/044031.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/40557 http://secunia.com/advisories/41856 http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/56380 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1006-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1801 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2722 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36339 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=596494