CVE-2011-2841

medium

Published 2011-09-19 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 does not properly perform garbage collection during the processing of PDF documents, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-17929 dos windows verified

Mario Gomes · 2011-10-04

Google Chrome < 14.0.835.163 - '.pdf' File Handling Memory Corruption

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
google	chrome	`{"endExcluding":"14.0.835.163"}`	`14.0.835.163`

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.