CVE-2010-1823
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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References
- 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//Oct/msg00000.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jul/msg00002.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/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7405
- 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//Oct/msg00000.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011//Jul/msg00002.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/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7405
CWEs
CWE-416
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.