PT-2008-5590 · Google · Google Chrome

Aditya K Sood · Published 2008-09-30 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-4340

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Google Chrome versions 0.2.149.29 through 0.2.149.30

Description: The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to memory consumption. This can be achieved by using an HTML document that contains a carriage return (r r ) argument to the window.open function.

Recommendations: For Google Chrome versions 0.2.149.29 and 0.2.149.30, consider avoiding the use of the window.open function with carriage return arguments until a fix is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4340

Affected Products

Google Chrome

References · 7

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/6554 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4340 · Security Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4339 · Note
• http://secniche.org/gcrds.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/31375 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45403 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/496688/100/0/threaded · Note