CVE-2010-4198 Information

Description

WebKit as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44 webkitgtk before 1.2.6 and other products does not properly handle large text areas which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted HTML document.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=55257 http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/11/stable-channel-update.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052906.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42109 http://secunia.com/advisories/43086 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:039 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0177.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45719 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45611 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656118 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A12157

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.8