PT-2009-4978 · Google · Google Chrome

Published 2009-07-22 · Updated 2018-10-10 · CVE-2009-2578

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions 2.x through 2.0.172

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash. This is achieved by passing a long Unicode string argument to the write method.

Recommendations For Google Chrome versions 2.x through 2.0.172, consider updating to a version that contains a fix for this issue to prevent potential denial of service attacks.

Fix

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-2578

Affected Products

Google Chrome

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2578 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://websecurity.com.ua/3338 · Note