National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2856
Original release date:08/06/2012
Last revised:08/14/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The PDF functionality in Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.57 on Mac OS X and Linux, and before 21.0.1180.60 on Windows and Chrome Frame, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger out-of-bounds write operations.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15053
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/07/stable-channel-release.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=135264
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=134954
