VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-2855

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
6.8

Description

Google Chrome before 14.0.835.163 does not properly handle Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors that lead to a "stale node."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

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.

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OS impact
macos macOS Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected 5.1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googlechrome{"endExcluding":"14.0.835.163"}14.0.835.163
macos appleitunes{"endExcluding":"10.6"}10.6
macos applesafari{"endExcluding":"5.1.4"}5.1.4

References

CWEs

CWE-74

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

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