CVE-2010-4197
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit, as used in Google Chrome before 7.0.517.44, webkitgtk before 1.2.6, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving text editing.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Fedora Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | Affected | — |
References
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=51602
- 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://trac.webkit.org/changeset/70594
- 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/45720
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552
- https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48349
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656115
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12266
- http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=51602
- 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://trac.webkit.org/changeset/70594
- 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/45720
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0216
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0552
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.