National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0659

Overview

The image decoder in WebKit before r52833, as used in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78, does not properly handle a failure of memory allocation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the Chrome sandbox via a malformed GIF file that specifies a large size.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/01/stable-channel-update_25.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33231

Hyperlink:https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33231

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0212

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0212

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/52833

Hyperlink:http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/52833

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/chromium-security-bugs

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1023506

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1023506

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 43068

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/43068

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14079

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14079

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2011:002

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00006.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28566

Hyperlink:http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=28566

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14079

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14079