CVE-2010-1823 Information

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit before r65958 as used in Google Chrome before 6.0.472.59 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger use of document APIs such as document.close during parsing as demonstrated by a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) file referencing an invalid SVG font aka rdar problem 8442098.

Reference

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=50250 http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/09/stable-beta-channel-updates_14.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jul/msg00002.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/43068 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4808 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4981 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43055 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44533 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A7405