National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2869

Overview

Google Chrome before 21.0.1180.89 does not properly load URLs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors that trigger a "stale buffer."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: chrome-stale-buffer-code-exec(78178)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/78178

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 85034

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/85034

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1215

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00030.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/stable-channel-update_30.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2012/08/stable-channel-update_30.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137778

Hyperlink:http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137778