CVE-2010-4198
high
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
92%
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
Fedora Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 13 | Affected | — |
References
- 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/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12157
- 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
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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