National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2121
Original release date:06/23/2009
Last revised:08/07/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Buffer overflow in the browser kernel in Google Chrome before 2.0.172.33 allows remote HTTP servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted response.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: XF
Name: googlechrome-httpresponse-bo(51307)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2009-1656
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1022429
External Source: BID
Name: 35462
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35548
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 55278
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/06/stable-beta-update-security-fix.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=14508