CVE-2010-4040

high

Published 2010-10-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

7.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Google Chrome before 7.0.517.41 does not properly handle animated GIF images, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted image.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.0	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
google	chrome	`{"endExcluding":"7.0.517.41"}`	`7.0.517.41`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.