National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0664

Overview

Stack consumption vulnerability in the ChildProcessSecurityPolicy::CanRequestURL function in browser/child_process_security_policy.cc in Google Chrome before 4.0.249.78 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a URL that specifies multiple protocols, as demonstrated by a URL that begins with many repetitions of the view-source: substring.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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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: MISC

Name: http://twitter.com/akirsanov/statuses/7370288490

Hyperlink:http://twitter.com/akirsanov/statuses/7370288490

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: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14097

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14097

External Source: MISC

Name: http://exchange.kg/other/chrome3_0day-denial_of_service_crash.html

Hyperlink:http://exchange.kg/other/chrome3_0day-denial_of_service_crash.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31517

Hyperlink:http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31517

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14097

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14097